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Recordiad sain / Audio recording: Raffaele Quaglia
Oral history recording in English with Raffaele Quaglia. 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 1 of 7 (AV 11453-11459)
00:01 Raffaele Quaglia was born on the 26th of November 1919, in Rocca d’Aspide in the Salerno province. He then moved to Altavilla Islandina when his father bought property there. Before the war Raffaele worked for a building company, but soon after he returned to work on the family’s land as employment in factories were reserved for those who didn’t own land.
04.19 Thanks to working in the fields, the Quaglia family had a secure food supply which saved them from starvation during difficult war times. He remembers that before the war there was enough work for everyone, but during and immediately after the situation worsened gravely and no work could be found.