European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I'd chosen it because of the speed of the fox, an animal that runs fast.

That was the reason for the name Volpe, my one and only name.

Bruna and the fleet

Bruna is one of the "staffette" (partisan couriers) who helped to save me.

We were to meet between Barco, Bibbiano, Montecchio and Cavriago,

where the railroad was, around midnight.

We arrived at eleven o'clock,

so we told the "staffetta" that we would go to a peasant's house nearby,

and asked her to watch out and to call us when they'd arrived but to be careful.

Around midnight she came to us

and told us the other partisans had arrived but they were dressed in white.

They didn't know the password.

We went to the entrance door and there they were,

a group of 20 people all set there in front of us.

When they understood that we were inside the stable

they shouted at us to come out with our hands up.

Our light was burning, and one of us broke the lamp to hide us in the dark.

As soon as the light went off the shot at us.

They killed two cows and a donkey.

One of us had taken his shoes off and ran away barefoot.