Los Angeles CNN —“It went from wonderful to horrible in an instant,” Charlotte Hauptman said of that fateful Saturday morning.
A photo of Mercedes Virgili, left, and Charlotte Hauptman is seen on Hauptman's phone.
The framed photo is on display in the Virgili family home in Secchiano, Italy.
Charlotte Hauptman shows off her mother's ring, which was returned to her years after her family traded it for food in Italy.
Panic.”Her daughter, Hauptman would later find out, was panicking on the inside.
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