Adelina Allemandi

Adelina Allemandi was born in San Michele Prazzo, in the province of Cuneo, in the 1920s. At the end of the war she began working as a supply teacher in schools in the Biella area. At the end of the 1945/46 academic year she moved to Milan, where she stayed with an aunt who helped her look for another job. She hoped that the big city would offer her a better opportunity. Throughout the summer and during the months that followed, the two women scoured the newspapers for job offers and Adelina had several interviews.

 Her aunt, the widow of a notary, set her network of acquaintances in motion in search of an opportunity for her niece, without success.

"One day in February, and by then it was 1948, I received two letters: one inviting me to work for the Venice insurance company and the other announcing a new supply teaching post. I didn't have much time to decide which job to take: I instructed my aunt to inform the Insurance Company that I had left and went back to Biella"

Story collected in collaboration with the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale.