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She was only 18 then. When she was in Parma they knew she was with a family, but at that time they were definitely worried.
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I would leave early in the morning and run towards the mountains,
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stopping every now and then to ask people if they had seen a partisan unit with a woman. Actually there were two women in the unit then.
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Somebody finally knew where they were, taking me to Gova, towards Mt. Penna, very far away.
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They had run away there because the Germans were looking for them.
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She would always walk behind the rest of the group because she would take care of the wounded.
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She wouldn’t carry them, there were others who would help her, but they didn’t have vehicles or horses, nothing at all,
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so they would often improvise a stretcher – they called it a ladder – and put a cloth over it, if they had one.
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That’s how four men would carry the wounded.
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Brother at war
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My oldest brother had already left for the war in 1939.
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I was looking at some postcards the other night, and the first were sent in 1939 from Albania.
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He was in the Julia Alpini Brigade and had been in Udine for a while,
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before he was sent to Albania and then to Greece and Russia.
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It was really rough for my brother, poor guy!
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He was sent to Albania, then to Greece and finally to Russia. When he came back from Russia he was ill.
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Actually, they thought he was dead. They were picking up bodies from the Don
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and they thought he was dead, but he was only frostbitten and suffering.
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I guess they slowly revived him and managed to bring him back to Italy, to Rimini.
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They kept him there for three months and we never even went to visit him,
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