354. Italiani di seconda e terza generazione > conversazione con Salvatore Gargiulo

In this fifth episode exploring what it means to be second or third-generation Italian in New Zealand, Carla Rotondo talks to Salvatore Gargiulo, a retired school principal from Nelson. His grandfather came to NZ from Capo di Sorrento in 1920, joining other Italians he knew, in what is known as chain migration. Initially he worked in the fishing industry, and once settled he sent for his wife and his two older children. Salvatore’s father, Vincenzo, was born in NZ in 1923, he went to war as NZ soldier in Italy part of the Allied Forces, fighting against the Italian regime. Returned from war he married a NZ woman and Salvatore was born in 1951. During Covid Salvatore spend many hours reading his father‘s war dairies to compile a book called Getting to know dad from his dairies. The war experience was very distressful for Vince and he never went back to Italy. The Gargiulo family was part of the Nelson Italian community, and now Salvatore is the vice-president of the Club Italia. Per il supporto alla realizzazione di questo programma Ondazzurra ringrazia l’Ambasciata d’Italia a Wellington, https://ambwellington.esteri.it/en/ che promuove la lingua e cultura italiana in Nuova Zelanda, e il Ministry for Ethnic Communities che promuove la diversità ed inclusione in Aotearoa. https://www.ethniccommunities.govt.nz/