The Italian Community
From Archivio Digitale
Category: Interview
| Title | The Italian Community |
|---|---|
| Interviewer | Jim Sullivan |
| Interviewee | Paul Elenio |
| Year | 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Tape, accompanied by newspaper article |
| Geographic reference | Island Bay, Wellington, Somes Island |
| Online resource | NO |
| Topic | Italiani in Nuova Zelanda, Italians in New Zealand, Italian community, Fascism, Somes Island, Prisoners of War |
You can find the interview here
Unedited interview. Jim Sullivan talks to Paul Elenio about the experiences of Italians living in NZ during WWII. Many of them were incarcerated on Somes Island for up to four years because of fear of them being fascist sympathisers. Paul is assistant editor at the Evening Post and is author of Alla fine del mondo, a history of Italian migration to the Wellington region. Elenio and Sullivan discuss the details of the Somes Island detainees and also talk about the Italian community in Island Bay, Wellington. (Article from newspaper accompanies tape).
The interview is in the Sound Collection of the Ngā Taonga media library.
