Mémoires de guerre

Bombings

Today I was struck by the idea of writing a diary

Maria ALEMANNO

Maria Alemanno was born in Venice in 1900 (and died in 1988) and successfully graduated from senior high school. During the war she was in Florence whilst her fiancé Nando was far away, in a German prisoner of war camp. The typewritten manuscript arrived at the National Diary Archives in Pieve Santo Stefano on August 6 1990.

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Fragments of memory

BIAGINI Margherita

Margherita Biagini was born in Florence in 1931, and did the middle school diploma. She wrote her memoirs between 1997 and 2000. The manuscript was given to the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale di Pieve Santo Stefano on 14 December 2000.

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