European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That famous Zanti who was shot at the Zucchi barracks.

The party had given her that duty; she was organized and already had contacts in Modena,

and she did move weapons around, together with my sister-in-law Iside Viani.

We went there and I found an agreement with her.

In the morning we went by my house, while nobody was there, because they were all meeting in a cattle-shed.

I picked up my bicycle and went back to San Bartolomeo, because I didn’t dare staying there, if somebody betrayed me.

So I left in the morning, I went to pick Zanti up and we went to Modena by bicycle.

She took me to Alfeo Corassoli,

where I met the famous lawyer Poppi,

and that’s when I started to be involved in the authentic partisan struggle.

I was like a sister to the partisans.

They all loved me and respected me.

It was amazing.

Staying with a family of peasants living in Saliceto San Giuliano, where I stayed 5 or 6 months, I felt like I was at home.

They didn’t even know where I was from.

They thought I was coming from the mountains near Bologna.

Only after the war did they find out that I came from Reggio.

Military actions

We had drawn together most of our forces in the lowlands around Reggio, around Limiti, Soliera, Carpi.

All the houses were with us.