European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

we put two groups there, one on each side of the bridge, in order to work untroubled.

After that we set the fuse and set it on fire.

We walked down a bit because rocks would be falling down

and well I went back to see after the war was over,

and not only did we blow up the arch, but also 2-3 meters of road on both sides, because 45 kg are a lot.

When they arrived they had to do a horse-shoe, that’s why it was important to stop them.

and forcing them to dig the mountain, build a horse-shoe in order to be able to get through:

It might seem nothing to you now, but every time we went to ask families for a pair of pants,

Maybe it was my disposition, but I really had so much fun there. That’s where all the news could be heard.

Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over to her house

ANNPIA is the National Association of Persecuted Italian Political Antifascists,

A woman came by on her bicycle, and asked me if I was the son of Mr. Porta.

many had a wife and kids, and those were different kinds of problems.

Two of us were butchers – one of them was from Ravenna, his name was Belloni.

Mr. Benito Mussolini and Mr. Hitler would have to die before me.

In the morning – I had a small booklet with a map – it turned out we were in Austria.

My mother and father had always been working to set up the cooperative.

Then, that night, I remember that people came over to wake them up,