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Tag: prisoner of war

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Love in Greenpoint in Wartime: How an Italian Prisoner-of-War Won a Brooklyn Girl’s Heart

by Geoff CobbDecember 5, 2017November 30, 2017

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 […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint, Historical Greenpoint, Uncategorized

Greenpoint’s WWII Prisoner of War Camp and a Forbidden Love

by Geoff CobbMay 19, 2016November 30, 2017

One of the things I did while researching my local history book Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past was talking to as many Greenpoint seniors as I could. They have repeatedly told me a […]



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