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My marriage to a POW

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Contributed by听: derbycsv
People in story:听: Kenneth and Elena Holtham
Location of story:听: Italy
Background to story:听: Civilian
Article ID:听: A5086848
Contributed on:听: 15 August 2005

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My husband was a POW in Italy. In 1943 he escaped and came to the village that I had been evacuated to. My grandparents took him in, along with some others. This was in a small village called Magliano di Tenna. In 1944 when the village was liberated by the Polish, the other ex-POW's left, but Ken stayed because of me.

The Poles thought he was a German spy so they took him away. They couldn't speak a word of English, but Ken, using broken Italian, mananged to persuade them to take him to the nearest English Headquarters. They sent him back to us so he could say goodbye. That is when he asked me to marry him.

We eventually married on the 2nd June 1945 and have been married these sixty years since.

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Posted on: 15 August 2005 by Hugh Ferguson

Dear Elena,
I wonder if you have ever heard of the author ERIC NEWBY. He also was P.O.W. in Italy and was sheltered by a farming family and he married one of the daughters AND wrote a book about it. See if you can find the book which should be listed under his name. Good luck. My name is Hugh Ferguson, and my contribution to this archive is entitled "THE SOLE SURVIVOR".

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