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Through the Gates of Dachau Concentration Camp: The Survival of a young man from Bagni di Lucca.
While tracing young men from Bagni di Lucca through WWI and WWII, I came across a name I didn’t expect: Davide Talenti, born in 1921 in San Cassiano di Controne[1]. In 1944, his name appeared on a list of priests, Communists, politicians, and Jewish civilians imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. But Davide wasn’t a public…
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Following the footsteps of a San Cassiano emigrant: Montreal, Canada (Part 1)
The Origins The story of Bernardi & Nieri began as a one-man venture by Lorenzo Nieri (known as “Laurent” in French-speaking Montreal). The first record of the one-man business appears in Lovell’s Montreal Business Directory in 1925–26 [1]. Lorenzo had emigrated from San Cassiano to Montreal in 1906 [2], likely working for other Italian-led figure-making businesses in the city while laying…