These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Oral history recording in English with Damiana ("Dina") Ruggiero. 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 4 of 5 (AV 11469-11473)
00.01 When they left their house for the mountains, thousands of people were doing the same. They made cabins up in the mountains. They slept on the ground with no covers. Damiana was taken when she was out looking for food her family. She recalls children crying in the mountain.