European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

They got surrounded and surrendered but were all killed.

We were very disappointed by then.

Our spirits were really low and we had only negative perspectives.

When the commemoration here will be held on the 17th, or on the 21st

because it's always being celebrated on Sundays,

I will go and take a look at the Cervi detachment.

I can always say I was lucky because two or three times it was a coincidence and I always was lucky.

Searching for the partisans

By that time Dalmazia Street and Dante Zanichelli Street became

something like an island

because everybody went to stay outside the city centre

where there were continuous bombings.

One evening I, Armando and Orvillo,

the one on the picture, met outside the Ariosto Theatre

at 8 o'clock because it was curfew time

and then we went here and there.

We made friends with the guard of the GIL, who was called Bonacini.

Orvillo, our third friend but more a brother to us

was working as a driver for the GIL.

So we made friends and at night during the curfew