European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Activities after the war

I went back home. I knew I would find the same situation I had left behind.

In the mountains I had become another person.

I was respected and highly esteemed. Not only because of my stripes,

but because of the way I took care of difficult operations.

I didn’t want to go back home constantly having to listen to what my father or my brother said.

As soon as I got home I told my father I didn’t want to work at home anymore.

I wanted to shape my own life, find a job and become self-sufficient.

At home I felt repressed. My father agreed.

I started working, setting up women sections and the feminist movement.

I studied in a party school and was sent to take care of trade-unions.

I started to get involved in the movement for the protection of women’s rights.

I had decided I would work for all those who had died, to accomplish what they had hoped for.

Their dreams were also mine.

We wanted a few simple things:

a job, a chance to support our families properly, the right to send our children to school,

to live in a democratic society, maintain our individual values and at the same time defend the rights of the community.

So as soon as I started working for the party, I set up women sections, even if I wasn’t particularly skilled.

Women were all coming from the same background I came from.

We had to discuss together about our own issues, learn to vote, identify our problems and develop our demands.