Carmella and Giuseppe on their wedding day in 1947

About a year ago, I wrote a story for Greenpointers about a Brooklyn Italian-American girl who fell in love with a captured Italian soldier during World War II while he was incarcerated at a prisoner of war camp at Dupont and Franklin Streets. I did not have many of the details to this unique love story and thought that I would never learn the complete…

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  2. Is this the story from 91 yr old Emma who owns the Dand. Wine bldg.? I thought the last name of the Italian girl was Renaldo if I remember correctly.

  4. According to a documentary aired on PBS, the Italians did not immediately return to Italy when the war ended because of all the devastation in their home country so the US government allowed them to remain in the camps and work for the US and gave them permission to socialize on the weekends. That’s how many of them met their wives. I vaguely remember my Italian mother bringing them homemade food.

    1. Hi Mary, I only know that the Italian in the story was most definitely shipped back.

      1. They were shipped back eventually when their country’s devastation was made habitable. I’ll see if I can find the link to the PBS story. This was a nice story that you reported on and enlightened a lot of Greenpointers that a prison camp did exist in the area.

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