Late last month, Ms. Adler Donley shared the photo on several World War II-themed internet groups, along with an appeal: “Trying to find these children from Italy. Please share.”“I was looking for ways to cheer him up,” Ms. Adler Donley, a former art director for a book publisher, said of the search for the children. The past year, she added, had been “really, really, hard” on her father, who lives in a retirement community in Florida, where he has been apartment-bound with his wife, Elaine, 89, since March. The photo caught the attention of Matteo Incerti, the author of several books about World War II, including one published this year on the history of the Indigenous people of Canada and the United States in the Italian campaign. Last weekend, TG1, the main 8 p.m. news program of Italy’s principal television station, Rai 1, broadcast a segment with the appeal.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2020 19:41 UTC