Short story of my grandparents Grohovaz Luciano and Tosca Viezzoli

 

I miei nonni Tosca e Luciano

My great grandfather Angelo Grohovaz worked in a bar in the city of Sushak, where he lived with his son Luciano. My grandfather, instead, worked in the Rijeka Merchants Union, where also worked my grandmother Tosca. My grandmother, lived in calle Barbacane, where Her father, Vittorio, had a grocery store on the same street.

Calle Barbacane

During the war my grandfather Luciano was initially inolved in the anti-aircraft, only later to be  transferred to the office of the army. After the armistice he hid in the attic of his mother's house. On 1 September 1946 they got married in Rijeka. Between the end of 1946 and the beginning of 1947 my grandparents left Rijeka. My grandfather, alone, passing himself off as a railway worker, reaches Milan, where he finds work in the Bank of Rome. He lived in a house with other people, where women were not allowed to enter. My grandmother, instead, joins some of her relatives in Trieste who hosted her temporarily. Subsequently, both of my grandparents, reunited and together with my paternal great grandparents, moved to the Como area. Here my great grandparents Angelo and Alba had a dairy and lived there, while Tosca and Luciano lived together with another family in Induno Olona (province of Varese), in the spaces of a former stable of a manor house made habitable in the best possible way. In 1951, through his work my grandfather Luciano manages to redeem an apartment in Milan, where they lived until April 2016. Unfortunately in July 2019 at the age of 97 my grandmother passed away and my grandfather followed her in April 2020 at the age of 97.