TOGETHER APART | Federica's story: ‘For our little one, it was like the gift of a lifetime’
Channel: Europe In Your Language
Date: 24/04/2023

How can you explain to young children why they can no longer visit their grandparents? Or why there are no children to play with in the playground? 

Federica, from Italy, mother of a three-year-old, faced many challenges during the lockdown but managed to turn the situation into a precious gift for her son. Watch Federica tell her story in the interview she gave for ‘Together apart’ in May 2021.

Watch the story on our My House of European platform: https://my-european-history.ep.eu/myhouse/story/1682/en

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‘Together apart. Mobility in times of COVID-19’ is a collection of personal testimonies about how different people experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and especially how it impacted their ability to move freely. 

It is a project developed jointly by the European Parliament’s ‘My House of European History’ online platform and the House of European History museum. Fifteen people from Italy, Romania and Sweden, at different stages of their lives, share how lockdown and COVID-19 restrictions changed their daily lives following the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020. 

You can find and watch their stories in all 24 EU languages on the ‘My House of European History’ platform.