European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We would go visit families who we knew were antifascist, who were against the war…

First of all, there were already some soldiers who had succeeded in deserting, and we told them to go to the mountains.

Then we collected clothes and supplies.

I took them to Roncolo and handed them to Torreggiani, who would take care of getting them to the mountains.

We did that during the winter,

collecting things, preparing people, preparing women

in order to have some homes ready to hide in for one night for those who didn’t know where to stay before they left for the mountains.

That’s more or less what we did.

We delivered orders…

At that point some were already properly organized.

My military duties, I carried them out supporting the comrades who were in the mountains and those who had to hide.

Propaganda, handing out leaflets, secretly bringing them all over the place at night.

Then the strikes slowly began.

The strikes against the war had started, and we got ready for the strike of the 1st of March.

Work in the family

Before he married my mother, my father was

with a family of peasants who were working for my mother’s family, who were called “servants” at the time.

With other co-workers from Montecavolo they set up a sort of business;

they had the machinery for threshing and ploughing the land, so 4 or 5 of them got together and started this activity.

After that he always did that job, he was always a thresher: