THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY: MY FATHER’S POSTCARD SENT FROM THE HELL OF KEFALONIA (GREECE) FOUND AFTER 80 YEARS!

This is an incredible story. It begins with a postcard that arrives from the hell of Kefalonia, eighty years later. A small rectangle of paper which, suddenly, after eight decades, comes to pierce the veil on the dramas, horrors and residual hopes of a young Italian soldier, my father, who – as an artilleryman of… Read More THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY: MY FATHER’S POSTCARD SENT FROM THE HELL OF KEFALONIA (GREECE) FOUND AFTER 80 YEARS!

agosto 13, 2024 Roberto Alborghetti5 commenti

FAREWELL TO MY FATHER, HERO OF KEFALONIA MASSACRE…

Last night my father passed away. He was one of the few survivors of Kefalonia slaughter in 1943. A terrible event happened during the Second World War. Thousands of young Italian soldiers were killed by nazis on the Greek island. My dad Battista survived to massacre and he dedicated his life to tell and remember… Read More FAREWELL TO MY FATHER, HERO OF KEFALONIA MASSACRE…

giugno 8, 2014giugno 22, 2018 Roberto Alborghetti26 commenti

“THIS IS THE WAR…”: MY FATHER IN THE HELL OF KEFALONIA (SEPTEMBER 1943). REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY…

Kefalonia massacre happened exactly seventy years ago. My father Battista is a survivor of that terrible tragedy in which died about 9.000 Italian soldiers (September 1943) killed and exterminated by German Nazis. I gathered his incredible story in a little book with the title : “Mio padre nell’inferno di Cefalonia” (English translation: My father in the hell of Kefalonia).… Read More “THIS IS THE WAR…”: MY FATHER IN THE HELL OF KEFALONIA (SEPTEMBER 1943). REMEMBERING A TRAGEDY…

settembre 8, 2013dicembre 1, 2014 Roberto Alborghetti18 commenti