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Belco, Victoria
War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948, 05/2010Book Chapter
On an otherwise ‘beautiful morning for the grape harvest’ in late September 1944, Father Polvani considered how the suffering of so many families all around him moved him to tears. In particular, the previous Monday he had met a group of women – widows seeking food and assistance – walking the eight kilometres from Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni to the communal seat of Cavriglia. ‘How can they go on,’ he asked himself.¹ The priest was not wondering how the widows could walk so far over ruined roads through the post-battlefront rubble, but how they could go on with life, how they would carry
