European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

I had no dilemmas when I was faced with the choice of joining the armed resistance against fascism.

Contrary to many in central Slovenia, there was no doubt in my mind whether to join or not.

Although personally, I of course had many doubts.

I had gone to study prior to WWII.

It was my great ambition to get an education because I sensed within myself, already early, the inclination to write.

I even wrote a few awkward verses.

I was aware that I could truly become a poet, in the correct sense of the word, with the appropriate education.

Anppia

ANPPIA is an association set up in 1948

in Reggio Emilia which still holds documents concerning more than two thousand antifascists.

It’s a mission we’re really proud to carry out.

and, whenever we can, we work to tell everyone about our stories.

The tough return home

I came home by train.

We left one morning and arrived at Lake Constance, in Switzerland.

As we got there, the train stopped working,

so we had to wait two days before we found another one.

It took us one and a half days to reach Como,

because everything had been destroyed and there was only one railroad track working.