Diario di un ragazzino rifugiato. 1943-1945

«Diario di un ragazzino rifugiato 1943-1945 is not simply a literary fragment of childhood memories. It is a private diary jealously preserved, but also kept hidden for a long time, as if it needed protection from new forms of prejudice. This volume does not only restore to the collective memory the diaries of a child, Carlo De Benedetti, born in 1934; it also contains notebooks, drawings, as well as personal letters, exchanges of greetings, train or cinema tickets, communications to his father Rodolfo and mother Pierina. Deprived of any recent annotations or comments.It should be read like this: through an understanding of its innocent and naive simplicity or its composed normality. Because, after all, that was, in the end – although in the simple words of a child – the state of mind of many of those that were persecuted by the fascist and Nazi regime. An overall sense of disbelief while standing on the edge of the abyss.’