European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

My mother, poor woman, was the only one who knew how to give injections, so she was always dashing about, called on by everyone, even at night.

Antifascist families; Jewish families

Mining a bridge; Sabotaging flow of German troops

We were receiving reports of troops coming back from the front, from Garfagnana,

on the road going through Fivizzano and the Cerreto pass and towards Castelnovo Monti.

They were sending new troops to the front, by that time they had been there two or three months.

There was only this small thing we used to call the “fognone” (big sewer).

By that time we had a lot of TNT since they dropped it from the airplanes.

We walked up there. There was a wonderful moon this night, a very calm night, like in springtime.

They had a machine gun nest not too far away,

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.