Conca Della Campania: Concentration Camp

Conca Della Campania Dept: My parents were from war-ravaged Monte Cassino. My father grew up in nearby Conca della Campania, where people lived in caves during the bombings to protect those who couldn t protect themselves. At 14, he found the body of his mother Emilia after she had been killed by a bomb. His brother was in a concentration camp, got out, started a family but then died. My father helped raise his three young sons, and later brought two of them to Canada. My mother came in 1957, and my father in 1958. My father worked 26 years in a bottling plant and my mother was a seamstress, according to Globe and Mail. In 1943, because of an overnight murder of one of their soldiers, the Nazis chose 19 men from Conca della Campania at that time, mostly old men and boys in their teens and marched them out of town. The last guy in the line was my grandfather Benedetto. He was able to communicate with the last Nazi soldier in the group, who apparently felt remorse. In the last few metres of the walk, he let my grandfather and two other boys jump off to the side. Sixteen innocent people died by execution that day and what is your family background? What memories did they bring from the Second World War? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.