She and her husband Luigi Gorini transformed a house in the Italian Alps into a home for Jewish orphans who were liberated from concentration camps.
Torriani-Gorini was born to Ada Forti and Carlo Torriani on December 19, 1918, in Milan, just after her brother had died of the Spanish flu.
[3][4][1][5] In 1956, Torriani-Gorini won a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship to the New York University School of Medicine.
[1] The two transformed a house in the village of Selvino into a home for approximately 800 Jewish orphans who were liberated from concentration camps, in preparation for emigration to Palestine.
[3][9][1][11][10] For their work to house these children and their advocacy against fascism, they received the Raoul Wallenberg Commemorative Award from the state chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
[2][9][1] According to their son, when they moved to the United States, Torriani-Gorini and Gorini continued to speak out, through newspapers, protests, and lectures, against "...US support of repressive, right-wing governments in Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Africa.
[1] Additionally, Torriani-Gorini made many charitable donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Citizens for Participation in Political Action.