Corfu, 2016
I spoke Greek with my father because he was from Kefalonia; with my mother, we spoke an Italian dialect.
I was born in Corfu in 1927. We were a large family: my father, my mother… three sisters, including myself. I was the eldest. I went to a Greek-Jewish school. I spoke Greek with my father because he was from Kefalonia; with my mother, we spoke an Italian dialect. If I happen to speak it now, it all comes back to me…
I was 17 years old when they rounded us up in the square. The whole family unfortunately.
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Only my father and I came back. No one else. I had an eight-year-old sister… She went away with my mother and they were gone on the very first night…