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One family's story of World War II liner tragedy

This week marks the 70th anniversary of a tragedy which deeply affected the Italian community in Wales.

A ship called the Arandora Star was sunk off the coast of Ireland. It was carrying Italians and Germans who had been arrested after the outbreak of war.

The sinking of the Arandora Star touched virtually every Italian family living in south Wales, as it did so many other Italian families in London and Scotland....

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