Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Abraham Mondry - June 15, 22, 29 & July 13, 1992

Bari, Italy II

And then you lived in Italy. From Ebensee you got to Italy.

Yeah.

And you married an Italian woman there. What was her name?

Maria.

And how did you meet her?

Hm?

How did you meet her?

I just see her walking and I stop to talk to talk to her, you know. She was such a good, nice good-looking girl.

Was this in Bari?

Yeah, Bari. How do you know Bari?

Oh, I've been there.

Oh, you been there. Where? Near Taranto too? Brindisi?

Yeah. We drove across.

Oh, you was there. I lived in the section there.

In Brindisi?

No, not Brindisi. Near Gallipoli I don't know if you know.

No, I don't know.

??? Santa Maria de Bario, Santa Maria de Luca.

Beautiful there.

Yeah, it's beautiful, the horizons. That's where I was in the beginning. In a hospital there, with the nuns. You know, with the nuns...

Mm-hm.

...the sisters. Right at the end of Italy, the end from the...

The boot, the tip of the boot.

There the people was nice, I tell you. They was nice.

And this was where you met Maria.

Yeah, in Bari.


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