Hi Folks, Stubbled upon this Italian website about Camp PG 62 Bergamo (Grumellina) http://www.gramscibergamo.it/INIZIATIVE/20090425/20090425_mostra.pdf I've read throught it using google translator which you can imagine took some time but was worth it. I've taken some pictures and translated the text into english and put them on a word file If anybody would like me to email you a copy please pm. I cant attach as the file is to big!! NB. It's not a perfect translation as it was done through google.(dont speak much Italian myself) You will be able to understand it though Im sure!! Cheers Deano
Hi Deano Are you still researching Camp 62? I have only recently joined the forum so only just seen your post. I am researching my Dad's military history and he had a brief spell in this camp. He was in the 1st SAS and captured near Tripoli in Dec 1943. Campo 62 was a transit camp for British (and other) POW's. It had a pretty awful name (see pdf attached). Every year they have a memorial service and a procession throughout the streets of Bergamo to remember those who suffered there. My Dad went onto Campo 62/33 which was a laundry in Milan. I didn't find out where that was while there, but I'm still looking. He escaped (or was let out) a day before your grandad and was hidden in the roof of Cathedral Duomo was taken to Milan Station which was at the time guarded by German Troops and put on a train to somewhere near the Swiss border. My Dad's MI9 report (seen below), looks like a carbon copy of your Grandad's with regard to his route through Italian POW transit camps. Only the dates vary slightly. It is very likely that they might have known each other, if not by name, possibly by sight. My wife and I went to find Campo 62 and paid a short visit there in May 2010. I have some images from the visit which are posted here. I bought a book from the Museum called "The Fields of Silence" which tells the story, but is in in Italian and is not available in English. If you need any more information, please let me know. Geoff Camp 62 seen from the Bergamo to Milan train - 2010 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4420 Camp 62 Now a paper Factory - 2010 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php? albumid=779&pictureid=4419 The memorial in the gardens with Camp 62 in the background - 2010 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4418 Memorial Plaque - 2010 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4422 Duomo Milan Sept 1943 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4423 Milan Station (2010) heavily guarded at the time my father and the priest who helped him escape walked up them to catch the train north to the Swiss border http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4421 MI9 Report Page 1 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4424 MI9 Report Page 2 http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=779&pictureid=4425
Hi all, Being Italian.. If you need further information, don't hesitate to ask. Thank You Marco, very much appreciated. I will be in touch soon. Best wishes Geoff
[The above attachments looks very familiar to me as I did the same for a lady in Nov 2009 who was visiting the camp the following year so I thought I would better post the other interesting item I have and did via google translator so Marco could now doubt correct it. View attachment The lager the Grumellina (newspaper).doc View attachment The_tower_of_silence.pdf
[The above attachments looks very familiar to me as I did the same for a lady in Nov 2009 who was visiting the camp the following year so I thought I would better post the other interesting item I have and did via google translator so Marco could now doubt correct it. View attachment 70224 View attachment 70225 Hi all, As kindly requested via pm, I have just read and corrected the Google translation of this nice article from the "Eco di Bergamo", a still existing and quite important local newspaper. Please consider that at present I am on a very very crowded train, with a poor Internet connection and absolutely without a vocabulary, so.. even my translation won't be the best you've ever seen before. Google translator made some mistakes - words, verbs and above all subjects of various paragraphs. For instance, it literally translated the surname of Col. Turco in "Turkish", "from Turkey". I reviewed and corrected it all. I hope this will be of some help - sorry if this translation is not perfect. Marco
