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Foto di primavera-estate 1944 a Bandera di Vernasca sulla costa di Vigoleno versante torrente Ongina . |
An uplifting story of dogged research into wartime hospitality in Italy has come to the Trust’s notice. Ambrogio Ponzi has an evocative photo of himself, as a small boy, sitting on the lap of Joseph Cahalane, an Irish sailor who had escaped from Fontanellato and was being sheltered by Ambrogio’s mother Albertina Vajenti and her five sisters. The family lived at Fidenza, in Parma province, but because of the Allied bombardment was taking refuge in the hills. The photo, taken in 1944, shows the group in relaxed mood in the countryside but, especially as one of the party is holding stolen German binoculars, it would have been sufficient to have had them all shot.