Elda Stiebel interviewed by Peter Parkhill for the Voices from the Illawarra collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2560456
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Stiebel, Elda Zanotti, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research use; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 128 min.): analog, 7 1/2 ips, two track mono.
- Series:
- Voices from the Illawarra collection.
- Summary:
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Elda Stiebel, born in Bologna, Italy, talks about her family background; siblings; meeting husband; emigrating to Australia, because her husband is Jewish; living in Bologna as a child; her schooling; religious lessons; school hours; the people of Bologna and villages, around 1935; trams; class differences; piano lessons from age 8, final exams at age 19; teaching piano after final exams; migrating to Australia (1939); Italy before the war: Mussolini; anti Semitism in Italy, 1930s; WWI; the family move to Melbourne, first impressions of Australia; landlord; migration and government regulations; husband finding a job in Batlow, N.S.W.; compulsory visits to police; registered as 'aliens', being fingerprinted on arrival in Australia; Batlow during WWII; neighbours; accommodating people during the war; repaying loan; earning money from needlework; picking fruit and vegetables; racism; learning English; building house (1945); Batlow cider factory during WWII, changing to a cannery after the war; 1960s employment for family; the move to and purchase of a house in Wollongong; teaching Italian at St Mary's College, Wollongong; studying for Bachelor of Arts through Univ. New England; her children's education; piano teaching; Wollongong during the 1960s; teaching at Wollongong West Primary School, 1960-61, teaching needlepoint at school; learning to drive; writing an autobiography; language and identity; children’s professions; Wollongong steelworks in 1960s; visiting Italy every two years to see family; Italians in Wollongong during 1960s; Italian friends; jobs for Italian migrants; availability of Italian goods; Australian attitudes to migrants, 1960s; Australian cultural traditions; Christianity, friends through the church; University of the Third Age; conversion of husband, his baptism.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Mar. 16, 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
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- Stiebel, Elda Zanotti -- Interviews
- Teachers -- New South Wales -- Illawarra Region -- Interviews
- Italian Australians -- New South Wales -- Interviews
- Italy -- Emigration and immigration
- Australia -- Emigration and immigration
- Batlow (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- History
- Wollongong (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- History
- Occupation:
- Teachers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Parkhill, Peter, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1995
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