European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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that I would be awarded by the army, by the government.
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I would be awarded a silver medal for military valour.
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I wasn’t even proud of this, since I didn’t know that from such a story one could obtain this medal.
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Activities as a partisan; battle-name
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They called me Aurora and told me:
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“Aurora, here we need someone who stays on duty the whole time”.
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I was available night and day, unlike those who stayed at home
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and did their household chores.
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We needed someone who was always available.
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I said alright, I’ll learn. I took typewriting classes, we got a typewriter and began my full daily life.
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I was a dispatch rider, I was a secretary, I did everything that needed to be done.
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In the beginning I went to Bologna twice a week,
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picking up weapons and ammunitions if needed, but mostly new orders coming from the central headquarters,
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which we depended on.
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There were the central headquarters and then other headquarters all the way down to the brigades.
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I worked without pause taking part in actions when it was needed,
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shadowing and other actions of our brigade.
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We had places we went to, we called them “recapiti” (addresses), where I brought things for everybody:
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in Carpi, in Fossoli, in the lowlands where we had all our partisans.
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I carried the stuff there and the dispatch riders then carried it to the “recapiti”.
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