Nonno Virgilio transferred to refugee camp in Opicina

As Mario Lorenzutti wrote to my father, "In maggio/giugno del 1956 fummo trasferiti nel campo profughi di Opicina ( baracche)  e li ,tuo papa` rimase fino al 24 maggio 1960 ,giorno in cui parti` per il Canada ,come emigrante./rifugiato."  Translated:  In May/June of 1956 we were transferred to the refugee camps in Opicina, and there, your father remained until the twenty-fourth of May 1960, the day that he parted for Canada as a refugee immigrant.

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The end of the month May 1956 to 24 May 1960