Sicily to Syria and Back Again
Alberto Camastra had never lived anywhere but Damascus. But as Syria’s war closed in, his long-dead grandfather offered a way out.
Towards the end of the Second World War, a young woman from Czechoslovakia fell in love with an Italian soldier on the island of Sicily. Helen and Alfonso were married in Catania, Alfonso’s hometown, and it was there that Helen conceived a child – one of the millions whose lives began in the chaos and displacement of war.
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