Tag: My father in the hell of Kefalonia

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!

Roberto Alborghetti5 commenti

“PLACE ME LIKE A SEAL OVER YOUR HEART, LIKE A SEAL ON YOUR ARM; FOR LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH”

Yes, there are no words. But sometimes we have to find them, to make sense of life and things. The day we brought to the cemetery my dad Battista, the great soldier of Kefalonia, survivor of the horrible nazi massacre of Acqui Division (1943), my mom Tina joined him in Heaven. Yes, my mother also passed on… Read More “PLACE ME LIKE A SEAL OVER YOUR HEART, LIKE A SEAL ON YOUR ARM; FOR LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH”

Roberto Alborghetti8 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…

Roberto Alborghetti18 commenti