Rachele Gabbai, a cousin of my grandmother, while living in Cairo. Rachele later moved to Milan, Italy. The photo is dated May 20th, 1929.
From left to right: ?, ?, Mafalda Gabbai, Yolande Gabbai and Jacques de Botton, Sidi Bishr Beach, Alexandria, March 1931.
A photo of Mafalda Gabbai and Gastone Beghè at the sailing club in Alexandria, August 31st, 1935. (Mafalda is at the back table, turning around, with Gastone next to her (I am unsure but it may be Yolande smiling opposite my grandmother with Jacques de Botton to Yolande's left).
This is the photo of Clemente Gabbai that my grandmother always had on her dressing table.
This photo, with Yolande (far left), Fortunata (third from left) and Mafalda (reclining on the grass) was taken on a trip they took in 1926. As you may have guessed, the mountain in the background is Monte Cervino - The Matterhorn. The lady to the far right is a good friend of Fortunata's, Tantine Craig, who moved to Sydney, Australia and who helped my grandmother and her husband, Gastone Beghe, to settle in Sydney after they were released from the internment camp at Tatura in Victoria, Australia, where they spent the last three years of the war.
In summation, that's why they ended up here and, no doubt, why my grandmother survived the war. Had the ship they were on reached its destination in Italy, and not been seized by the British and sent to Australia, one cannot be certain I would be alive to write this today.
I am unsure of the others in the photo.
In summation, that's why they ended up here and, no doubt, why my grandmother survived the war. Had the ship they were on reached its destination in Italy, and not been seized by the British and sent to Australia, one cannot be certain I would be alive to write this today.
I am unsure of the others in the photo.
Fortunata Gabbai and Tantine Craig at Mendola (between Caldaro and Ronzone near Bolzano), Italy c.1926.
