“Giorgina was born at the end of May 1940, when Hitler’s panzers were routing the Allied troops in northern France and a few days before Mussolini declared war on Britain and France (…). One of her earliest memories is when, in 1944, with her mother and younger brother, she is helped by two spalloni to cross the passes of Valtournenche, in the shadow of the Matterhorn, to escape into exile (…) in Switzerland.’ (p. 81).
The photos of the two little siblings were taken on the Swiss side of the Matterhorn and at other locations across the border, one in August 1944, and the other at the bottom in July 1945, when Giorgina was 5 years old and Beppo 2 and a half.
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