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The video interview with Natale Agostini
was carried out by Urbano Cipriani on Monday the tenth of October
2005 in Avena, in the commune of Poppi in Casentino (AR). The
transcription of the interview in Tuscan, and then its adaptation...
Maria Alemanno was born in Venice in 1900 (and died in 1988) and successfully
graduated from senior high school. During the war she was in Florence whilst her fiancé Nando was far away, in a German prisoner of war camp. The typewritten
manuscript arrived at the National...
Louis Pesnel was born in 1922. He was still at school when the war
started. When the Germans arrived in Normandy in 1940 the young man went back to his family’s in Montfarville. He then worked at sea with his father,
and in the fields with his mother. The first part...
The following pages offer
a
few passages taken from diaries or memoirs written by Tosca Ciampelli, Nanda Belli, Maria Alemanno, Perla Cacciaguerra, Margherita Biagini and Marisa Corsellini,
six women who lived through the tragic experiences of the Second...
