Tag: Internment
Learn to Speak Italian and Reconnect with a Lost Part of Culture
I’m on a quest to learn to speak Italian, which has not an easy task. It seems harder for me to learn a new language now that I am in my late fifties. In high school I took Latin, and I easily soaked it up. I still recall so much…
Potentially Dangerous Film – Official Trailer for the Feature Length Documentary
The Il Ponte Film Group presents the Potentially Dangerous film, a feature length documentary on the Internments of Italians in America during World War 2. Potentially Dangerous focuses on a period of time during World War II when the U.S Government restricted the rights and freedoms of 600,000 Italian residents…
An Italian Internee’s Letter Home During World War 2
Italian Internees held in US internment camps were permitted to write only two short letters and one postcard per week. The length of the letter was determined by the space allotted to the internee on one side of a standardized piece of stationary supplied to internees by the US Government…
Why Columbus Day of 1942 is so Meaningful Today
Estimated reading time: 30 minutes Beginning on December 8th 1941, over 600,000 Italian-Americans were branded “enemy aliens” and were firmly under the surveillance of the US intelligence community. Out of that number, tens of thousands were experiencing a very broad range of civil rights violations and massive economic losses, and…
DOCUMENTARY: Italian American Internment During World War II
Michael Angelo DiLauro presents the documentary “Prisoners Among Us Italian American Identity and WWII”, narrated by Tony Lo Bianco. This excellent film focuses on the historical events and experiences of the Italian diaspora in America up to and throughout World War 2. It covers the Italian American Internment, and includes…
