Bruno Favetta oral history interview by Maria Favetta

MLOH 151

fonds

16 June 1987

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

412884

Digitised

1 audiocassette (32 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Bruno Favetta discusses his experiences as a nineteen-year-old Italian immigrant in Australia being interned at Hay, N.S.W. at the beginning of World War Two (from June 1940), for over four years. Favetta talks about his time in the camps, the conditions, other internees, rules and punishments. Favetta discusses daily life including food, his separation from family, the fate of attempted escapees and his release in 1945.

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.

Italians in New South Wales : a guide to archives in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales / compiled by James Andrighetti. Sydney : State Library of NSW Press, 1995

The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Copy available at CY MLOH 151/1
MLOH 151/1 Side A: Sound in left speaker only. Interview starts at 00:00:49. Occassional background noises including children and sound of recording device. Voices quiet throughout interview. Interview ceased abruptly at 00:13:00 and is followed by music. Recording from 00:13:00 is redundant.
MLOH 151/1 Side A: Recorded on 16 June 1987

Interviewer: Favetta, Maria
Interviewee: Favetta, Bruno

MLOH 151/1 Side A: Date taken from Cassette tape label.

Tape was damaged whilst checking for recordings on side B. Do not play until further repairs are made.