European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Reflecting history

I care about these stories.

Not so much for myself.

Rather for the benefit they convey to those who listen and want to think about them.

It was real life.

I’m not exaggerating things, even those episodes that are quite sensational.

I rather focus on reflecting on them. It’s all about the 20th century, about the way we lived through it.

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.