foresight is and i and i did come from italy when i was sixteen years old a long long time ago and my parents wanted to come of this country after world war two because they really felt that we give kids a chance a chance that with hard work and a lot of studying then we would have a better life here then we would in italy and for us for my brother and myself it came through  came true but now it is i don't know if now it is it is easy is it was there we had a hard time meeting i've seen the opportunities we're there were more proof there were more numerous and let me ask you you came you came here when you were sixteen years all east and that was right after the end of world war two away yes i was born in a small town by naples southern part of italy that we are in the wrong and so i was doing the hardest part of my life in italy was when we had was we son was an adult that his dad and my uncle had told him the son the cousin is own son that is brother salvador to have been underground in what were the realities of life in rome sometimes in my home during that period of time we didn't know what the food came from or what it was ok or i was bought and it was because i'm sure we ate some cats everything whether the means staples were on the black market i mean like flour and out of oil sugar the thing is so you were given a ration so much but then there and they knew for example what what they heard see this spot right here there was some extra sugar to be bought and sold ten fifteen women from the neighborhood would go there and stand it and hide away from the germans in  that we were very lucky because we never did go hungry my dad built us a stove break in the middle of the kitchen it kept all the windows open so we get on the stick and then and i being one bucket is so we all put our buckets in line and it is never once been an incident where somebody would go down and move his or her bucket i have anybody else or put down a bucket everything and the little in music she learned in five years here she thought he had good things to say so she asked my mother not my father my mother she asked my father what can i do to help this fellow so my mother went around the neighborhood with an english speaking person and to get to get a signature for president john f kennedy for the first true she knew he was going to be president and so is my mother i become an american citizen i'm very proud to see this i was old enough that i could do my own citizenship so five years after we came to this country i took my american citizenship test and i passed the first that are happening in the united states now we work very hard in life was hard in all this stuff but it came a point in our lives were because of age occasion because of the time because of the platoon is given to us  life became much much much much better ok and so if i got sick of them brother got sick we knew my mom got sick we knew we were taken care of because my father a lot of money no but i think because maybe my all of it gave us some of the people in power and with this in mind it was too much damage done to us and those that then something happened in my life and my husband's life when he was about forty one years old and in his first or second heart attack i'm not sure what it is and this is an anecdote just i feel like i have to say i have to tell you about it because from that point on things seem to go so much worse for most people and i was still a lot of it there weren't so bad for  know you don't know me anything we are not in america here we are not in america meaning that you don't get down you don't get gouged you don't get to be anything for and that it would pop what it cost city like so inferior we're not in america here you know we take care of our people that come to our door what would you like to see for the future of your grandchildren your nieces and nephews this same opportunities that  electronic resources that you can use even from home as well as in the library so to start i thought we'd look at the resistance in europe and some of the  and under databases i'm going to start with biographies biography and context is a collection of electronic books and materials that have been put online that provide a variety of information about various historical figures she talks about the resistance in europe and one of the figures involved with her story is benito mussolini so i thought i'd show you that information so here with the results of my search for mussolini i've come across some articles about him one is from the people of the holocaust another is from a resource called encyclopedia judaica there are also images of the person in the state a base as well as news clips and magazine articles i can listen to this i can have it spoken to me and or obviously you can just read all the material that's you can just cut and paste that right into any document you might be using on also mentioned that her mother received a letter from john f kennedy for working on his campaign we find him a big article and actually you can click here and view a much longer article in addition there's also quite a bit of interesting information there's facts about his life videos of him more pictures and then a variety of other reference resources news articles and magazine articles so it's going to take us to another database under our history and culture section and here we have something called the world history reference collection and again it's a variety of books and other content that's been gathered together to reflect world history so another part of her story she discussed how her father worked in the resistance in italy against mussolini and the fascists during world war two and so i did a quick search and i found an article here europe under occupation and this can be listen to it over to read it to  you you have where the information came from the resource that it came from and then a nice article with your key words highlighted about what it was like in europe under the occupation existence against  mussolini so of course other resources available in our database selection are encyclopedias course encyclopedia britannica has an online site that's quite useful so part of it are part of an article on world war two i titled italy's entry into the war and there where you can see how italy entered the war on the side of the axis powers or became one of the axis powers one of the fascinating parts of filamentous story is t united states and there's quite a few resources you can use to follow up on that another resource we have for following up on immigration information is social issues reference collection in particular one called immigration united states again we have a long article about the history of immigration tonight states so another aspect of film and i mentioned in her story is politics and political activism and stuff that she was involved in i want to point out another great resource c q researcher which does really in depth articles on political issues in fact they just recently updated their immigration debate article we've been able to inspire you to follow up on any of your interests fill in the story was fascinating there's quite a few aspects of it that we were able to follow up on with our electronic resources all this can be done from your home with a case yes library card again it's quite easy to access  resources in the library that might interest someone who wants to find out more about the kinds of things that philomena did she got very involved in her community so we have many books on getting involved volunteer ng citizen citizen action this is a book called soul of a citizen living with conviction and challenging times there are many such resources as this this is a book called old daughter new world mother about an italian immigrant who came to america someone wrote up their story it's a biography and if you're interested in writing up your story we have books on writing memoirs this one is called old friend from far away we have writing to heal for dealing with trauma how to do a biography many many other resources in addition to these some people are interested in tracing their genealogy and the library has many geological resources to these are just a few discovering your italian ancestors finding your italian ancestors but we have them for many different nationalities i just want to let you know that we have lots of resources here we love to help people and whatever you want to find out we can help you do it thank you