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Bologna, December 14, 2020 – There was a happy ending, a little Christmas miracle. Not only the three children that he American soldier Martin Adler I was looking for are alive, but they also managed to virtually meet one video call. At least hoping for a real hug, once the pandemic is over. Those little ones that the soldier found in 1944 in a basket in a house in theApennines (just because of a mustache it didn’t go off, hearing noises) today there are three pensioners – and grandparents – living in Castel San Pietro Terme. Their names are Bruno, Mafalda and Giuliana Naldi, born in 1937, ’39 and ’41 respectively.
In that fall in the Gothic lineIn the harshest months of the Second World War, they were in a house above Monterenzio, which they call Rio della Pradella, in the hills of the Idice valley, above Monterenzio. And they still remember the Americans stationed on that front, in the middle of candy and card games at night.
A few days ago Adler, who is now 96 years old and lives in FloridaThrough his daughter Rachelle, he made it known that he wanted to meet three children here, of whom he kept a photograph. The virtual appeal was picked up by journalist and writer Matteo Incerti and came from house to house, not only in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, but also beyond national borders. Until yesterday, when the photo caught the attention of some Castilians and Bruno Naldi managed to talk online with Adler’s daughter. Until the virtual hug – and full of emotion – this afternoon. “Hello Bruno, Mafalda and Giuliana” Adler greeted them from sunny Florida. And the three brothers, excited, responded, remembering the candies and chocolates that the American soldiers at that time left the children. “We hope to see each other again,” they add from a distance, before the Christmas greetings. Which, it must be said, just gave another fairy tale.
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