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Fiorenza’s story

On 29 October 1912, my great-grandmother Giovanna Amerio sailed from the Italian port city of Genoa on the SS Duca di Genova, bound for New York. Crossing the chilly North Atlantic in late autumn would take a full two weeks, … Continue reading

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