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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Oral history recording with Elena Germain. Recorded as part of the Italian Memories in Wales project (2008-10), delivered by ACLI-ENAIP and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Part 3 of 4 (AV 11412-11415)
00:00:01 The interviewer asks Elena the work that she did on her arrival in Wales. She was a housewife to start with then found work in a factory, after which her daughter was born and then she worked in the hospital to be near her husband. The interviewer asks how she feels when she returns to Italy and she replies that everything has changed, nothing is the same since she left Venice. Elena explains that after the death of her husband she decided to return to Italy to live as she felt lonely living in Cornwall on her own. She moved back to Venice so as to be close to her daughter.
