European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I was the only one of our family who went to church.

I finished elementary school

and went to work when I was twelve.

However, when I was just a little older than 14,

my father and the bailiff had a small dispute, so I got fired and was left unemployed.

I went to the employment agency to get a job at the Reggiane mechanical plant.

They kept telling me to come back the following month.

But every morning for the following forty days, I turned up at the employment agency before they opened.

I guess I wore them out, because one morning they finally told me to come inside.

They were going to let me work at the Reggiane.

The Reggiane mechanical plant was

the most important weapon factory in the whole region.

Quite frankly, I was a catholic and went to church. For me it was all about this, work and church.

I had never been interested in politics.

Even at the time of the laws against the Jews, I didn’t follow the issue much.

I was a passionate worker.

I was even doing research to increase production.

US-captivity, end of war

We were on a ship to travel onwards from the Mediterranean Sea.

But we came back and later on we were handed over to the Americans.