“My mother Giorgina is there until I am three years old, then our entire care is entrusted to the so-called ‘young ladies’, of whom I have good memories (…)
I like the German Waltraud (…). At home we call her ‘Schwester’ and you can even recognise her in my christening photos. (…)
Once we leave our family’s work to return home to Germany, she will send us a souvenir photo in a police uniform, with a German shepherd in force at her side. (…)”. (p. 77).
In the photograph, from left to right, ‘Miss’ Waltraud, my mother Giorgina holding me in her arms, my father Bernardo, my maternal grandmother Marianne Maire and my paternal grandfather Guido Venosta.
Below: my birth certificate.
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