Subfonds 0010MSF - Maria Stella 'Esther' Formosa

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Maria Stella 'Esther' Formosa

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  • 1920s-2018 (Creation)

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1 oral history audio recording, 5 digital surrogates of photographic paper, 1 born-digital photograph, 1 audio recording

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Accession no: 2020-05

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Theme: Experiencing war - survival, shelter and food. Maria Stella 'Esther' Formosa was born on the 19th of November 1931. She had 8 siblings: 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Her father, who died before the war at the age of 33, worked at the Imperial Hotel, Sliema and her mother was a housewife. Esther was a dressmaker at Hamrun and Santa Venera from 1945 till 1974. She had lived in Hamrun, Santa Venera and Saint Paul's Bay and had 6 children.

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