Identity area
Reference code
MT NAM MEM-0001ER
Title
Ettore Raffi
Date(s)
- 1938-2017 (Creation)
Level of description
Subfonds
Extent and medium
1 oral history audio recording, 1 transcript, 4 digital surrogates of photographic paper, 2 born-digital photographs and 2 digital surrogates of ephemera.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Accession number: 2019-08
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Ettore Raffi was born in Lampedusa on the 12th of November 1938 to a family of fishermen. He had two male siblings. He started working at sea when he was 15 years old and some of his destinations included Mississippi and Panama while he was a marine engineer. He left in 1982 when he became a janitor at a school in Lampedusa. He got married and had three children: two girls and a boy. He had always lived in Lampedusa.