Wartime memories

Wartime memories

Created by Redazione il 22/09/2011
A collection of videos relating to the Second World War. Memories of those who fought, but also memories of those who, as a child, witnessed this terrible event.

5.7 min
Antonio faught the WWII with 2nd Ranger Battalion. After the wart was over he wanted to continue to work in show business but it was impossible so he applyed for a job in fire department.
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1.2 min
Josephine remembers the first day of war...
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6.0 min
With the December 7th everything ended for Antonio, he had to give up his scholarship and went to war. His brother was drafted even before the declaration of war...
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3.5 min
Joseph recalls the wartime years. He was thirteen when president Roosevelt declared war to Japan. In the US his family felt the consequences of war but they were also aware that it was not nearly as bad as in E...
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8.4 min
Louis talks about his childhood in Naples during the war. The English, the Americans and the Germans bombed the city... When he moved to the US Louis worked with a man who was a bombardier during the war and wh...
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4.5 min
Giovanni was a child when the Second World War started, but he rememberes the day of its begining and its end in Italy. A touching wartime story.
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6.0 min
Ursula moved from Germany to Italy in 1936. She speaks about the period up until the 1938 when she as a Jewish child, unlike in Germany, could go to school and about the years from '38 to '43 when her family wa...
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1.4 min
George speaks about the cruelty of the Croatian clergy and military during the Second World War and his positive experiences with the Italians.
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Childhood memories of the wartime
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wartime experienced through the eyes of a little girl
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How the wartime was felt in the 40s in the North End of Boston as a child
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