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since in the mountains all these small trails easily led you to a house.

There was also the Miliari family, who lived close to us.

The father was truly an antifascist, he didn’t even have his children baptized.

I think he had worked in America, so he was very close to my father.

Then there was the father of Nello Nusoli, who later became a member of Parliament, although you probably don’t know him.

He would also join my father in these drying-rooms where they would all meet.

I don’t know what they talked about, but even as a little child I had to go around

and tell people that a meeting was scheduled, that my father would be there, so they’d know where they had to meet.

There were quite a few Jews in Marola.

There was a very good man who would often come to our house, and there was also a younger boy.

They were a very nice family who had built a beautiful house there, but we didn’t have much to do with anybody.

Later, when I was away for ten years, I did meet many Jews.

I worked in a restaurant, and they would come to work in the fields in the summer and winter.

They were all great people to me.

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There was a family in Reggio who was often with my uncles in the house

where I used to go collect information, and one day the father said they had to leave.

They had a furniture store. I think they closed it and decided they had to go away.

At the time I didn’t know or understand why they fled like that.

We didn’t talk about it, especially in Marola, in the mountains,