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… As an active young person, I wanted always to make different in the community, and seeing people suffering from AIDS, drug abuse, and … Salaam. I used my journalistic skills to share information in schools, communities and universities to address issues are concerning the youth. This project lead me to become a youth activist. I was selected to travel to many countries in …
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… stopped at the following ports: New York, Boston, Halifax-Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Casablanca, Gibraltar, Palma De Mallorca, Barcelona, Cannes, Genoa, Palermo, Naples, Patras, Venice … as a passenger ship until 1965. Updated Nov. 25, 2014 : Ennio Paola identified himself as the baby in the photo, at age nine months. Ennio …
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… Lydia was born in White Russia. As a young girl, she worked as a domestic and eventually ended up in Chorzow. She … of German descent, spoke seven languages, and never went to school a day in her life. Until the invasion, the children spoke German and …
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… Biancamano". I will never forget the look on my mother's face when she had to say good-bye to her mother because she knew deep in her … went back to Italy to visit in 1967. I have never been back. One day I hope to go and see the little town where I was born. The "Conte …
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… stolen from our train coach, as we were about to leave Naples. I was presented by a pair of (what I thought) elegant white sandals. They … in hand, and stopped me from making myself violently ill. On the four-day train trip I became quite ill with a fever of 104 degrees F. A … Montreal, but when he came on board another mother with a sickly child pre-empted the good doctor’s services. Somehow my mother and father — …
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… Lina and Vincenza and I left Naples on March 8, on a clear and sunny day. The trip was without incident until we were midway through our … arrive to Toronto. There we met my father who was already here having come to Canada in 1951. He hugged me and raised me to his chest and …
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… her Anna Teresa, in honour of my father’s own and only sister who had died suddenly at the age of 21. And within two years of her birth, the … patch made of cotton pushed into place by glasses, my father never complained of his trials, but pursued life with kindness, gentleness … force of this small familial unit. Joining the work force, their combined effort and ambition led my parents to open and grow their very …
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… my mother told me that our land is almost takes over by the Burmese soldiers. My family started to move in Canada. When I am in Canada …
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… and Maria Zampini, and his Uncle Michelino and Aunt Sylvia on the day of their arrival , July 25, 1961. “When we first saw the picture, … a return trip in July 2022 with her and with her kids and grandkids. “She doesn’t have a lot of recollection of that whole experience. From …
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… I finally got my telegram to go to London, my mother was upset but she bravely came, along with my good friend, to help me with the … wash diapers and baby bottles. We got through it though and the next day we were put on buses to take us to Southampton" from there we started on our journey to Canada. It took six days. It was an awful time. I was seasick all the time, as well as my …