Panozzo family papers, 1940-1942, 1983, 1998

MAV/FM4/10834

fonds

1940-1942, 1983, 1998

420852

1 microfilm reel of textual records

Marco Panozzo (1899-1942) was born in Tresche Conca, near Asiago, province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. He emigrated to Australia in 1922. He worked variously in the coal mines at Corrimal, N.S.W., 1922-1931, and for the Italian wine and spirits distributor Cinzano in Sydney, 1931-1936. He then worked as a journalist for the Sydney newspaper Italo-Australian and as an officer of the local Italian Chamber of Commerce until the outbreak of World War II. He was subsequently interned as an enemy alien in camps at Hay, N.S.W. and Barmera, South Australia, where he died on 1 January 1942.

Include letters of Marco Panozzo in Australian internment camps to his wife Giuditta and daughter Nellie, 14 Nov. 1940-28 Dec. 1941, written in Italian and English; letter from Bruno Rossi to Giuditta Panozzo, 14 Feb. 1942, (Italian); a copy of Vita dura e avventurosa di un emigrante dell'Alto Vicentino by Romano Panozzo. Printed in Thiene, Italy, Dec. 1983, 68 pp., with an English translation: 'The Hard and Adventurous Life of an Immigrant from Alto Vicentino (1922-1942)', compiled by Anne Pickstock, 1998, being a computer printout. This translation includes a transcript of a letter from Rev. M. F. Toal to Giuditta Panozzo, 3 January 1942.

Italian, English

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