I was born in a German concentration camp, grew up in an Italian orphanage, and then discovered that I was the richest man and 50 percent Croat (VIDEO)

Silvio Loreti (73) from Udine had a real miracle life, who found out about his real roots in old age. This is his story.  

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- It is difficult to describe in words all the emotions that welled in me from knowing who I am and where I come from, from the moment when I first came to Split three years ago, the city of my mother and found the street where she grew up. Even the moment I visited the grave of grandparents on Lovrinac - Silvio begins his story.

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- All my life I was a foreigner, a person who barely got citizenship, and now I'm the richest man in the world.  Now I finally know: I am a 50 percent Croat from Split ! - Silvio Loreto tearfully talking to Slobodna Dalmacija , 73-year-old from Udine, a child born in a German concentration camp and grew up in an orphanage, who was searching for the true identity all his life and he finally found the conformation in the birth register.

Mr. Silvio has been coming regularly for Splin for the past three years, accompanied by his loved Albina, and he said that he is finally calm and fulfilled.

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- Until I retired, I didn't have a lot of free time or strength to search in detail for my roots. By coincidence, on one evening, I met a doctor from Split, who helped in the search through the Register office in Split, where he found out in Marriage book that my mother Vesna married an Italian soldier Giuseppe in the church St Petra, which was destroyed after the bombing. Before that, I had the wrong trail, I thought she was from Pula - says Mr. Silvio.

Deeply moving in its duration and with a happy ending, his story is a really great material for a movie, because life didn't go easy on Silvio.

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On 25 September 1943, seventeen days after the fall of Italy, on the day of the entry of German troops in Split, about a hundred women from Split reportedly married an Italian troops. Among them was his mother Vesna Dumanic-Sulenta, which was soon deported to a labor camp Christian-Shtat am Baber, in Germany, where Silvio was born. 

She has managed to get away from the camp and handed him to an orphan. The unfortunate wife suffered from tuberculosis, from which she died before her thirties in a sanatorium near Trieste. Father who probably suffered from PTSD, gave up his son because he could not raise him. Silvio never heard about him, and his mother's grave also remained unknown.

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- I have only pale memories of my mother. I think I saw her two or three times. I had no documents, so they put me in an orphanage under the surname Loreto by accident. When I started working, I had a big problem because I did not have Italian citizenship, it said in big letters "foreigner", and police came to check on me at the work as if I were a criminal - he says.

Only with the intervention of a monsignor who worked at an orphanage he managed to obtain citizenship. When he got married, he did not have a birth certificate and he entered into the marriage before the eight witnesses who had to confirm his identity. All his life he worked a lot, because he was aware that everything depends on him.

When dr. Petri helped him, Silvio learned about his true roots and came to information on Pera and Domina Dumanic, Silvio's grandparents who probably never knew that they had a grandson, as they  probably did not even know the sad fate of their daughter, who has left Split when she was only 17 years old.

- Exactly on 1 July 2013, I came for the first time in Split, on the day when Croatia was accepted in the European Union. It was a holiday for me. I saw the city, clean, bright, shiny, full of archaeology, beautiful. It immediately slipped into my heart where it took a special place. Now I am calm. I told friends in Udine that I'm the richest man in the world - said Silvio.

A documentary movie was recorded about this man and his incredible life story, "Silvio Spalatino”, directed by Stipe Bozic.

(Telegraf.co.uk)