en: lidia-valeriani: chapter-1: c: 1 title: "Introduction, childhood during fascism" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,23" to: "00:00:04,15" text: "My name is Lidia Valeriani." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:04,15" to: "00:00:06,18" text: ~ sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:06,18" to: "00:00:12,20" text: "I was born on the 23rd of January 1923" sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:12,20" to: "00:00:15,22" text: "in Montecavolo di Quattro Castella," sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:15,22" to: "00:00:17,15" text: ~ sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:17,15" to: "00:00:22,01" text: "in a small hamlet called Scampate." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:22,01" to: "00:00:27,09" text: ~ sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:27,09" to: "00:00:31,10" text: "Awful fascist times." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:31,10" to: "00:00:34,16" text: "My father was a victim of political persecution." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:00:34,16" to: "00:00:39,28" text: ~ sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:00:39,28" to: "00:00:44,05" text: "I had two brothers older than I," sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:00:44,05" to: "00:00:45,13" text: ~ sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:00:45,13" to: "00:00:53,06" text: "and six more followed, making us a family of nine brothers." sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:00:53,06" to: "00:00:58,02" text: "As soon as we started to go to school," sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:00:58,02" to: "00:00:59,29" text: ~ sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:00:59,29" to: "00:01:10,25" text: "we already understood that things were different for us children of antifascists," sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:10,25" to: "00:01:20,16" text: "compared to those of the fascists, who were enrolled in the “Balilla”, in the “Piccole Italiane” - the fascist youth organizations." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:20,16" to: "00:01:22,09" text: ~ sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:01:22,09" to: "00:01:28,15" text: "I noticed and realized this when I was six," sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:01:28,15" to: "00:01:41,23" text: "and I started asking my father why we were considered differently from the others." sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:01:41,23" to: "00:01:43,00" text: ~ sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:01:43,00" to: "00:01:52,15" text: "My father tried to explain it to me, as best he could since I was still a little girl." sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:01:52,15" to: "00:01:53,11" text: ~ sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:01:53,11" to: "00:02:02,28" text: "He would have never enlisted us in the “Piccole Italiane”, or the boys in the “Balilla”." sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:02,28" to: "00:02:06,10" text: ~ sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:06,10" to: "00:02:22,25" text: "As we got older we began to understand how things were going, that the antifascists had to go underground." sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:02:22,25" to: "00:02:26,26" text: ~ sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:02:26,26" to: "00:02:34,02" text: "I was ten, it was obvious by then." sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:02:34,02" to: "00:02:44,00" text: "In 1933, when they started arresting a lot of people (they arrested and beat people even before that)," sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:02:44,00" to: "00:02:57,20" text: "I realized the situation, and some of our neighbours were arrested that year."