Thoroughly recommend this book to you all: http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/War-veteran-forget-guardian-ang
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Morning - the above is the name of a local paper. We can only make it out as "The remainder of the pug" - any ideas?? Or is that some old Italian proverb - in which case, what does it mean???
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 06:23
Following on from discussions about researching family history and in particular Italy in WW2, I had a tiny part in this story, in that through internet research I introduced John to a local group studying their local partisans. They got in touch
Thu, 11/04/2010 - 06:17
OK I've slightly oversold it in teh title - but this is better than a lot of Italian websites. Check out your own spot in the new Fermo Province. http://www.provinciadigitale.it
Wed, 05/26/2010 - 15:06
Morning. I'm working on a translation of an Italian newspaper article about Italians assisting escaped PoWs. Can anyone help with this sentence? "Durante i mesi passati a lavorare alla Sforzesca i ragazzi conoscono anche un altro fitta volo che
Tue, 05/04/2010 - 04:34
So what should the Pope do on his visit to the UK??? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/25/pope-benedict-condom-gaffe
Mon, 04/26/2010 - 13:25
You're right Badger I can post no problem using Firefox
Sun, 03/28/2010 - 18:07
Don't know how scaremonger-y this is - but if you access the internet like this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/feb/21/broadband-dongl
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 12:10
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Check out this post http://www.italymag.co.uk/community/post/recent-arrivals-le-marche
If you don't already know of it, you might be able to advertise them here???: http://www.maceratamonthly.com/ Benvenuto dalle Marche del Sud!
I don't know how to attach files here - but I recently discovered an account of the only occasion where partisans directly and victoriously attacked a Jewish concentration camp. It happened at Camp 59, Servigliano in S Marche in May 1944, which had been a PoW camp up to the Armistice in Sept 43 The partisans called in Allied bombers who breached the walls and they then evacuated the Jewish internees who were then looked after by the local "Committees of Liberation" If anyone wants a copy of the account given by the Jewish-Italian leader of the Monte San Martino resistance, Vito Volterra, pm me. Or someone tell me how to attach it here!
Thankyou poeta You might be interested in this book "In the Prison of His Days" by Norman Davison http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-His-Days-Memoirs-Captured/dp/0956007589/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271772553&sr=1-1 and http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/gunner-g-norman-davisons-memoirs/ which recounts Norman's capture, imprisonment and then assistance by partisans to get over the border into Switzerland. His son John has written to a local resistance organisation: http://www.vigevanoeresistenza.it/site/home/una-mail-dal-regno-unito-15-3-10 If you're in the area, you might look them up. If you'd like to speak to John - who would I'm sure love help with his research - let me know All the best Anne
Hi Geoff Not your prison camp, but for a mass of info regarding PoWs and their Italian helpers you could look here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/ and this more general site: http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/frames.htm and this: http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/ There will probably be Italian sites regarding the Resistance in and around Milan. You could try writing to the Milan section of the National Association of Partisans: Comitato Regionale ANPI LOMBARDIA - via San Marco 49 - 20121 Milano. tel. 02 76020620 Fax 02 784675. e-mail: info@anpilombardia.191.it BTW "Duomo" is the Italian for Cathedral - it seems your father was sheltered in Milan Cathedral
Good luck Brian Where in Italy will you be looking?
Thanks Mark. I had a couple of hours to spare before flying out of Rome Ciampino, so though I'd give my son and his friend a bit of exposure to ancient Rome in the form of a walk along the Appian Way as reached from the airport. As we walked along, with me expounding as to ancient tombs of Roman nobility, it was soon clear they were seriously distracted by all the ladies of the night plying their trade in the middle of the afternoon. Sounds like Ostia Antica would have been a better bet!
WOT! So evolution really IS only a theory????
and doors Joy??
...so I use this as a workaround. Which isn't ideal, but I'm afraid I can't get too worked up over something so trivial