The descendent of a family nearly wiped out during an air raid on Stuart Street in Gżira 76 years ago has flown from Australia looking for her relatives.
Amber Sprunt, 40, is spending a month in Malta looking for any distant relatives who remember the Spiteri family, which lost nine members on that fateful night of 1942. She believes speaking to the Times of Malta could be her last chance for locating any cousins before the generation that remembers or knows the family connection dies out.
“I would love to find family and to learn more about my late grandma, who survived the bombing. Sadly you don’t think about these things until it is too late,” she said, adding that she would like to make a feature film on a World War II civilian story through her grandmother’s eyes.
Equipped with black and white photos and a list of addresses, she has been knocking on doors, looking for any threads that might lead her to long-lost family.
“My relatives migrated to Australia in 1957, but there’s a good chance that people who knew them will remember, even all this time afterwards, because my family has a tragic story,” she said.
“Like a handful of other families, almost all of my…
