Unità documentaria 02 - Michael Joseph Grima_part2_10.08.2017

1 born-digital audio recording

In the second part of the second interview Michael recalled the bomb that had landed in front of the Point de Vue guesthouse just outside Mdina in 1942. This was housing British airmen at the time and had left a trail of devastation in the surrounding area. He talked about individuals who were rounded up by the state and interned and the remembered the arrest of the Maltese spy Carmelo Borg Pisani. Michael described the shelters whose unkempt conditions had accelerated the spread of scabies. People used to exit these shelters after after the 'all-clear' signal was sounded, but sometimes another air raid signal would be announced right after and they had to go underground again.

• maltese

Duration of the interview: 31:38 minutes; Format dimensions: Size MP3: 37.7 MB

Internal relationship: Related to Michael Joseph Grima photographic materials and ephemera

The interview was recorded in Rabat, Malta by James Baldacchino, National Archives of Malta

General keywords: Refugees, Bombings, Scabies, Famine, Food, Ration, Army, Convoys, Prisoners of War, Internees

Date of cataloguing: 12/11/2019