Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant C)

Interview with a survivor of the Voghera bombings (informant C)

The interviewee recollects his wartime experiences in Voghera. He claims he has always had the gift of sensing impending events, the first episode being when he told his mother that aircraft are approaching before, the siren had sounded, and therefore managed to escape moments before a bomb hit the house. He describes how he and his mother ran among bombs falling, being denied shelter in a doorway on the grounds it was already packed, and how many people were killed in the same bombing. He mentions wartime anecdotes: riding an American tank; the death of Franco Forini, a friend mutilated by live ammunition as he was gathering for scrap; and his mother picking up grain left in the fields after the harvest. He praises her humanity, resolution and cheerfulness.

2017-07-12

00:11:17 audio recording

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