Work & trades

Emigration, wars, work and homecomings: the story of the Italian community told through the people who lived it.

On 8 August 1956 a fire at the Bois du Cazier mine in Belgium killed 262 miners. 136 of them were Italian.

Tell your story

Did your family arrive by ship, survive a war or open a business? Tell us their story and we will publish it in six languages.