FIEGLAR, Adelaide (nee KAISARI) - Two mont
hs after her 96th birthday, on March 15, 2021, our strong and obstinate fighter passed away peacefully in Rome, Italy.
Titika, as friends knew her, was a soldier of a different kind as she overcame many challenges during her life. After the early demise of her parents, she was raised by three great-aunts in Corfu, Greece.
In 1943, at the age of 18, her ship was torpedoed as she travelled to study in Italy.
Eventually captured and imprisoned in a German camp in Dortmund, she escaped with false documents and made her way to Rome.
In 1946, she met, and five months later married, Waclaw, a young Polish soldier who lived in her pensione near the Trevi Fountain.
A day later he left to join his unit in the UK and she followed months later. Baby Diana arrived in 1948 at a Polish resettlement camp, and in 1949 they immigrated to Argentina with three suitcases, no contacts, and no Spanish.
By the mid-60's the political and economic instability forced them to immigrate to Toronto, where they started anew in their 40s this time with four suitcases, no contacts and feeble knowledge of English.
They lived in Toronto until 2015 when they moved to Ottawa to live with Alex and his wife, and then back to Rome in 2017. After Waclaw passed away in 2019, she battled with Alzheimer's but continued to love going to cafes and eating gelato!
Titika's legacy includes her children Diana (Dino A. Rossi) and Alex (Alexandra Bugailiskis), grandchildren Dino D. (Lori Boz), Daniela (Johnny Pellico), Henry and Angelica (Brendan Rodgers) and her great-grandchildren Daniel, Devan and Sophia.
She is also missed greatly by family members in Greece and Poland, friends in Argentina, and by many in the Toronto immigrant community for whom she advocated.
Rest in peace Nonna.
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