Person · Notable civilian
Giuseppina
Background
A ‘begrimed and bedraggled’ twelve-year-old orphan in Benevento who lives ‘under a house’ by the river.
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In Naples ’44
The first abandoned girl Lewis has seen among the city’s hundreds of boy-orphans; she comes matter-of-factly to the office to collect her weekly blanket — a currency worth a factory-worker’s wage.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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August 13 1944A resourceful orphaned girl, Giuseppina, comes seeking a blanket — a valuable currency — revealing the precarious survival of war orphans.
twelve-year-old orphaned child prostitute who comes asking for her weekly blanket
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