30th October, 1943

I hope you never have to organise an escape from danger...

Una Gioncada Haldane

Tyrone-native living in Italy during Mussolini's regime

I hope you never have to organise an escape from danger – it can be thrilling, but what head work. What details have to be gone into – what possibilities to be thought out […]

I have prepared the exact sum of money for each man for the tram […] I have studied the Milan, Como trains towards evening so that we can leave when it isn’t too dark and arrive when dark. The boys have found second mothers in the women who feed, wash for them and even nurse them through serious illnesses, risking their lives every minute of the day and night in doing so.