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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.12,0:15:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People from Here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to People from Here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we want to tell you today\Nis the story of two young people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two young people with high hopes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is Adelina,\Na brilliant lawyer who works
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a prestigious legal firm in Milan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there is Hector,\Nan industrial chemist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The future can only smile\Nat Adelina and Hector.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually,\Ntheir future will be more turbulent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they could have ever imagined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is,\Nin 1938 Hector and Adelina are Jewish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On September 18th,\Nin the town of Trieste,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Benito Mussolini announced Racial Laws\Nfor the first time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the defense of the race.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world of those two young people\Nsuddenly collapses under their feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will tell this story\Nof Hector and Adelina
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about the eve of the day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will tell it with the son\Nof Hector and Adelina,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniele Finzi, who in 2011, decided\Nto donate his parents letters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and documents\Nto The Archives of Pieve Santo Stefano.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly we will also discuss why\Nthis choice was made.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to start precisely\Nwith September 1938,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Mussolini's announcement\Nof the laws for the defense of the race.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hector and Adelina immediately started\Nto understand that there was no future
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them in that country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To leave their country was\Na difficult decision,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but one that will save their lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, my father Hector Finzi had\Nvery deep historical knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also because he knew German very well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had two aunts, aunt Genie\Nand aunt Lazagudita Gentiluomo,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who both lived in Vienna.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had followed all\Nthe Nazi antisemitism up to March 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the race manifesto was published\Nin July 1938, he didn't expect it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew what our limits were\Nand he also hoped
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Italy was perhaps\Na little different from Germany.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my father, more than my mother,\Nmade quick and immediate decisions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was also very intuitive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had known my mom only\Na few month in 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was love at first sight\Nand because of the race manifesto,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Racial Laws,\Nthey decided to get married.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were married in Milan\Non December 1, 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1938. We arrive in 1939.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A manifest date for many.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very unjust, but there is a turning point.\N- There is a turning point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hector and Adelina decide to leave.\NOr rather, how do they depart?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, in a way,\Nthey leave well informed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes and no.\NThe problem is immediate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that of money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the White Paper of the British,\Na policy from maybe February
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or March of 1939, \Nallowed a total of 75,000 Jews
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enter Palestine for five years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to qualify, \Nevery person needed to have 1,000 stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like we had said, they had chosen.\NThe goal was Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The choice was not a coincidence,\Nbecause my father had also thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Latin America.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the idea of going \Nto Palestine was because it was nearby.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also hoped his parents could join him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any case, \Nthe issue of money was really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a huge problem\Nbecause they didn't have money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, thanks to the lawyer Gianni Morandi,\Nwho was the owner of the firm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where my mom worked,\Nthey went to Zurich for their honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they went to Lugano\Nto gather clients for the lawyer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put towards this large sum.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still remember two leather bags\Nwith thousands of stars inside.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were gold stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, at this point, they reach Palestine.\NThe State of Israel still didn't exist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wasn't any money to protect them.\NTherefore, they had to start from scratch?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, and so, they started all over again\Nfrom January to April 1, 1939.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They arrived in Jaffa on April 6, 1939.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, because by 1922\Nthe British controlled Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were Palestinian Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Jewish Palestinians were organized\Nby the {\i1}Yishuv{\i0}, who were more concerned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the {\i1}kibbutz{\i0} and wanted\Nto dedicate themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to agriculture, etc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the harm, the political one,\Nwas directed by the Arab agency.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Arab agency was, well,\NI will give you an example.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who arrived\Nin Tel Aviv on April 7th,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were in school learning modern Hebrew\Ntwenty days after arriving,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there were various Jews\Nin Tel Aviv from every part of Europe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it was necessary\Nto learn this common language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, there was some organization,\Nbut there were a lot of problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any case, where I mentally find...\N- Ah, yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...this small amount of protection.\NHowever, they had to start...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to restart.\N- ...from scratch.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, however,\Nthere were also a lot of comforts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were left behind by the fact\Nof having to abandon...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes.\N...Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having to leave Italy was strenuous.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In regard to this,\NI would also read an excerpt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the letters\Nthat may have been donated to the archive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diaries in which Hector specifies\Nwhat he was feeling shortly after the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at which he abandoned Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will read from this excerpt:\N"When I left Italy four months ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"feeling more disgusted by the burden\Nof having to leave the country
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"than for the imminent danger,\Nmany of my colleagues
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and friends were quick\Nto express to me their discontent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"about what was happening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Through their conversations,\NI felt they knew what sympathy meant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and they only ended up withdrawing me.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They were whispered in room conversations\Nsolely because they knew me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and thought highly of me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For many, being an example against\Nthe persecution of Jews not being born
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in Italy, could also be considered fair\Nbecause it is understood that they came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to the country to make a fortune\Nby going behind other's backs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They had some skilled political views.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The fascist government's right\Nto persecute people that it had let into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the country was generally recognized."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so Hector felt betrayed by Italy?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without a doubt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was saying prior,\Nalso because my father was from Trieste.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From his father, my grandfather,\Nhe had also received an irredentist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nationalist education.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trieste...\N- Of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...had always been divided\Nbetween people from Trieste
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of irredentists,\Nthose who love Italy, Italian culture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Italian language,\Nlike my grandfather and the Slovenians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had received this education,\Nand so he was an irredentist nationalist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Additionally, he was a genius official,\Nand so he felt like an Italian.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loved Italy\Nand he felt betrayed by this terrible law.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In addition, in Hector's letters,\Nin this text, it also highlights
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a responsibility\Nby the Italian people themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for that which is happening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He writes:\N"The political maturity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of the Italian people\Nis apparently that of government rule
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that it has and that it deserves."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a precise responsibility\Nby the people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the problem of the Italian people...\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is living, yes, is like saying...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,living today like yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words,\Nthe lack of personal responsibility
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and...not this...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this way...y..., accepting anything,\Na leader or a guide,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that which has\Nan...an...uglier appearance, if you will.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that...Trieste,\Nnot coincidentally Mussolini
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and September 18, 1938,\Nwhere they were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Unity of Italy Square\Nto present the Racial Laws
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only because of\Nthe nationalism that was there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because Trieste was\Na very multiethnic, multicultural city.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were more than two centuries\Nin which ethnic groups were diverse.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They coexisted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at the very moment \Nin which Mussolini was harsh towards Jews,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who, I repeat, were profound Italians\Nand felt as such, and had also fought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Italy during the First World War,\Nat the point, everyone was inclined
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to accept the rule of fascism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We return to Hector and Adelina,\Nwho, because of their decisions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leave the Second World War behind,\Nin which the persecution of Jews
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the holocaust is about to start.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They leave behind the errors of war,\Nhowever, like I said, they face a life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is not easy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like we said,\NAdelina was a lawyer with a great career.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She finds herself having\Nto start her work up again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, because the main difficulty was\Na work shortage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was an excess of workers\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Tel Aviv.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, there were few jobs\Nor they were completely insecure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another big problem was\Na housing shortage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much so that my parents were forced\Nto live with a family in an apartment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a kind of Polish family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the difficulty was, above all,\Nthe work shortage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also because the two small bags\Nof two thousand stars were not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be touched at all.\NMy father was not flexible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so then my mom, in other words,\Nmy mom, as long as my father remained
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Tel Aviv until August 23, 1944,\Nwhen he then went to work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the British oil refinery... yes...\NNo, he also had my mom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because then he had had my sister first\Nand then I was born in 1942.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then when my father left,\Nhe felt the obligation to work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to support the family\Nalso because he liked the idea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of having money...\N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to freely spend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As mentioned, your mother was free...\N- Yes, free.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Palestine.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your father, on the other hand,\Nhad to move abroad to Persia
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because meanwhile he found work\Nwith an oil company.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So two lovers who find themselves\Nfar apart in a foreign land,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the only point of contact\Nbetween these two people becomes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the writing, the letters\Nthat will then become so important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for documentation, for their memories.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, if my father accepts\Nthis two year contract
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with this Iranian company,\Nfrom Abadan and in Persia,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he would do his work\Nas an industrial chemist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this precise military zone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He certainly separated from,\Nhe left his wife, his children,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Tel Aviv.\NThen, although very tired,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every evening my mom wrote\Nand reported what had happened
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during her workday,\Nbecause she had found work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a company that was part\Nof the Tel Aviv pharmaceutical industry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After then being fired,\Nshe went into a...into a house to iron...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, she could do anything.\NAnd so she reported with great ability,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,descriptive, careful about everything\Nthat went on during the day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather, my father sometimes wrote letters\Nwith in depth description.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He explained to her a bit about his duty,\Nweather problems because it was very hot,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relationships with the British,\Nthat local population that was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in truly devastating conditions.\NOkay so they were letters that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,among other things... If you permit me...\N- Sure.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a digression... Things one absolutely knew\Nbut I didn't even know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the letters existed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then perhaps we can also elaborate\Non how they were found.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then also about how the decision\Nto publish them came about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go back.\NWe had said that while Hector
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Adelina were in Palestine,\Ntheir children were born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, my sister...\N- You were born
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your sister Ana was born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is fitting that the future\Nof these two children is often focused
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on in these letters that Hector\Nand Adelina exchange.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to read another\Nparticularly significant passage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is again written by Hector\Nin Abadan in February 23, 1945:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If on one hand, the war tends\Nto be nearing its end, on the other,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"for us, the situation in Palestine\Nis taking a favorable turn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"These days, I am overthinking\Nand continuously thinking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"about the problem and worried,\Nnot so much about our personal future,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but the future of our children.\NI feel irresistibly carried towards
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"a solution that,\Nalthough never once explored,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"today seems inevitable to me.\NPerhaps in a year's time we will find
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the need to have to return to Italy.\NThen they will return
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to being one hundred percent Italians."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably if your father could have chosen,\Nhe would have never...ah...wanted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to return to Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I would have wanted to also.\NRather no, because of having been betrayed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Italy, my father deeply desired\Nto return to Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Apart from the experience in Abadan,\Nalso because life in Palestine was truly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very hard, very difficult because of\Nthe work problem, the problem
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the...of the...the lack of apartments.\NHowever, we can't forget
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the attention, the attention\Nfrom the Palestinian Arabs and the British
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made life particularly difficult.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we could return back in time...\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In September 1940, Tel Aviv was bombed\Nby Italian planes, no...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.\N- They bombed Tel Aviv and it seems
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like there were one hundred\Nand fifty two deaths.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So life was very hard.\NAnother digression...uh... In other words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the big problems was also food.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example, myself sister and I went\Nto the {\i1}gan{\i0}, which was like kindergarten.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help you understand, at lunch they used\Nto give us half an egg to eat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, this was a situation\Nthat you all continuously had,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing the situation\Nwith the hope of returning to Italy.