Dr. Orietta Favaro, immigrant from Veneto

NEUQUEN

His work for regional history has been of enormous value in the investigation of events related to the formation of the Neuquén state.

Daughter of Ida Zamattia and Juan José Favaro, born in Asolo, Veneto region. Orietta told us about her mother: “Her father died when she was a child and she, her two brothers and her sister, dedicated themselves to working the land, in addition to attending elementary school. They were left alone with their mother: they produced, consumed and sold products from the farm.

That's how he found them when World War II broke out. The family refused to join and participate in fascism, they did not hand over their jewelry and they did not use the currency (clothing) that the regime required; This led to young people being watched and pressured.” They were very close to the "partigianos".

“On more than one occasion, my mother recalled, they put them up at her house.” His father, Orietta explains, “was a conscript at the time the war began: he spent three years in a concentration camp in Germany. My mother always kept her letters, from time to time she read them. When the war ended, he arrived in Italy with the liberation process of 1945, partly walking and partly transported, in a terrible physical condition. They got married and went to live with his family to continue working the land. Until they summoned my father again: they decided to emigrate to America.”

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