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Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant B)
The informant remembers wartime episodes in Cordenons and the Pordenone area. Mentions aircraft en route to Austrian targets contrasted by anti-aircraft fire, while she was taking shelter in a ditch. Reminisces the bombing of Casarsa and the Meduna…
Tags: anti-aircraft fire; bombing; fear; home front; Pippo; round-up; shelter; strafing
Interview with a survivor of the Cordenons bombings (informant A)
The interviewee recalls her wartime years at Cordenons, starting from the day the outbreak of the war was announced on the radio. She describes how she anticipated the air raid siren with a mixture of elation and fear, being somewhat eager to skip…
Tags: bombing; evacuation; faith; fear; home front; perception of bombing war; Pippo; round-up; shelter
Interview with Liliana Kucic Podda
Liliana Kucic Podda recalls her early years in Fiume, stressing a serene childhood playing with her friends. Reminisces a severe bombing that hit the Whitehead torpedo factory and the ROMSA refinery - the latter burning for days - and mentions the…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; fear; home front; shelter; target indicator
Interview with Hans-Walter Bendzko
Hans-Walter Bendzko reminisces about his wartime experiences as a young boy in Berlin, before being evacuated. Describes his time at Wannsee, being properly looked after while surviving one of the Berlin bombings. Mentions incendiaries falling into a…
Interview with Benito Colonna
Benito Colonna reminisces about the bombings of Rimini and other wartime experiences. Benito was with his mother when he witnessed the 1 November 1943 bombing: he saw aircraft approaching and bombing the town, concentrating the attack on the railway…
Tags: bombing; childhood in wartime; home front; shelter
Interview with Leontina Giovanetti
Leontina Giovanetti (b. 1913) reminisces about her early life with three sisters, her father who was a typographer and photographer and her mother a house-wife. Describes musical training at the Milan conservatory, stressing the demanding attitude of…
Interview with Gavino Pala
Gavino Pala reminisces about his childhood in Sardinia, describing schooling and paramilitary training. Recollects the 17 May 1943 Alghero bombing, explaining how part of the population had left the city the day before and slept among olive trees,…
Interview with Royston Clarke and Diane Clarke
Warrant Officer Robert Royston Clarke joined the Royal Air Force in 1940 and flew in Lancasters.
He joined Bomber Command after seeing the bombing of Coventry.
Robert tells about bailing out and being manhandled by the local inhabitants before…
He joined Bomber Command after seeing the bombing of Coventry.
Robert tells about bailing out and being manhandled by the local inhabitants before…
Tags: animal; bale out; bombing; childhood in wartime; crash; escaping; evading; Lancaster; lynching; Resistance; shelter; shot down; Wellington
Gretel B
Gretel B's account of the events at Moltkestraße 9.
Heinrich G
Heinrich G's account of the events at Bettenhäuser Straße 6.
Anna A
Anna A's account of the events at Hohenzollernstraße nos. 26 and 28, Hindenburg-platz.
Johanna L
Johanna L's account of the events in Kassel.
Ottilie Klöne
Ottilie Klöne's account of the events at Pferdemarkt 9.
Johanna Burghardt
Johanna Burghardt's account of the events at Oberste Gasse 10.
Magdalene W
Magdalene W's account of the events at Untere Königstraße 101.
Heinrich H, Martha H and Lothar S
Heinrich H , Martha H's account of the events at lower Königsstraße 77.
Georg Mootz
Georg Mootz's account of the events at Mühlengasse 11.
Heinz W
Heinz W's account of the events at Königsplatz 36 ½, Turmgasse.
Theodor Tröll
Theodor Tröll's account of the events at Untere Königstraße.
Theodor Tröll
Theodor Tröll's account of the events at Motzstraße.
Director Seidel
Director Seidel's account of the events at Mittelgasse 31.
Elisabeth G
Elisabeth G's account of the events at Ständeplatz 13.
Three anonymous accounts
Anonymous accounts of the events at Rolandstraße 9, ‘Haus Windhuk’.
Franz Kramer
Franz Kramer's account of the events at Königsplatz, main post office, Lutherplatz.
Friedrich Rost
Friedrich Rost's account of the events at Hinter der Waage 8, Wildemannsgasse 19, pub ‘Zur Pinne’.