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Livio Defranceschi

Livio Defranceschi, 1925. Pula (Pola). Every mention of this name in the archive — 1 across 2 pages.

PlacePula (Pola)

Years1925

LineSouthern Istria

Found inRecord index

What the archive knows

Born at Pola, 4 August 1925, entered «nationality: Venezia Giulia». A separate IRO household from the Dignano one, with Carlo and Violetta née Kuvach beside him. IRO «Care and Maintenance» file, Italy (Arolsen 3.2.1.2) — the paperwork of the esodo, the Istrian exodus of 1947. Arolsen Archives online collections, read 21 September 2026 under the -schi spelling, which this archive had not tried until the service came back up. (doc) And a Livio Defranceschi landed at New York in 1957 on the SS Constitution — NARA T715 roll 8833, film 002322278, «birth place Italian» and nothing finer. A Pola man in a 1947 displaced-persons file and a Livio landing in 1957 are the right shape for one life. This archive is not joining them: the manifest gives no birth year and no town, and the only thing the two records share is a forename. The plate would settle it and is blocked on a FamilySearch sign-in. (inf, and deliberately unresolved.)

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