Gherardi, Giannino

Title: Gherardi, Giannino
Family name: Gherardi
Given name(s): Giannino
Gender: Male
Full biographical data: Giannino Gherardi (1908-1995) from S. Pellegrino (Bergamo).He arrived in Douglas in the middle of the night on September 30, 1943, after taking an 18-day ocean voyage from Oran, Algeria to Norfolk, Virginia, and then a 78-hour train ride across the United States terrain. On April 9, 1944 (on Easter Sunday) he left Douglas and was transferred to Italian Service Unit (ISU) camps, first to Pine Camp, New York and then to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where he stayed until the war’s end
Birth date: 1908
Country of birth: Italy
Place of birth: S.Pellegrino
Period of captivity: Camp Douglas/30 Sep 1943; Pine Camp/9 Apr 1944; Camp Kilmer/1944 to 1945-2 Sep 1945 to 1949
Journey: Italy; Oran; Norfolk; Douglas; Pine Camp; Camp Kilmer; Italy
Bibliographic citation: Gherardi, Giannino. 2020. “Memorie della mia vita di prigioniero,” Ermanno Arrigoni, Ed. in Voci dal Inferno: Lettere, diari, memoriali, testimonianze e immagini di soldati della valle Brembana durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, Tarciso Bottani, Ed. Corponove; Ruberto, Laura E. “Giannino Gherardi nel Wyoming, tra la Madonnina e la storia,” Quaderni Brembani, 20, 2021, 69-77.

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