European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Introduction, family, work
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My father was a foundling, who was adopted by my grandfather, Carlo Zebenini, when he was just a baby.
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My father’s name was Reino Quadreri.
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My mother was born in Reggio, her name was Valentina Paterni.
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Should I go on? Then, there was my brother Gastone, who was born in 1917, and Giulio, born in 1925.
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My sister Laura was born in 1926, then it was my turn in 1928.
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Finally, Aldo in 1931 and Renzo in 1933.
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Luckily my mother was a dressmaker.
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We had a house and some land, however, with such a large family, my father had to work as a labourer.
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We didn’t have anything even before the war, then everything got even worse.
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My brothers only attended school until the third grade, which was all that Marola offered.
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I was the only one who went on to the fifth grade, but in order to do so I had to go to Carpineti.
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We stayed at home; my brothers worked occasionally, often as farm-hands for other families.
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My older brother worked as a bricklayer in the seminary for ten years, before he was drafted into the army when he was 20.
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My father worked whenever he could find work.
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He only had a regular job in the summer, when he left for almost two months to go thresh the fields.
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You can still see those machines around the villages during the threshing season,
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and he was very good with them, so they would go work for almost two months.
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My father worked for this family every summer for 42 years,
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and that was the only regular salary throughout the year.
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