European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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At times he would also manage to work for a couple of weeks, once or twice a year.
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We were doing fine because my mother worked as a dressmaker and was able to earn a little money.
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She was very good at her job and worked for a family who paid her well.
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Nevertheless, we were nine in our family, so my brothers went to work as soon as they could.
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My sister was ten when she left home and went to work in Parma for a lady who was living alone.
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I went to Switzerland and worked there with a family for ten years.
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I was the one who had to wake up my master at two in the morning, knocking on the door and shouting, “It’s two o’ clock”.
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I was 19 or 20 years old then. He trusted me; he would go to bed at ten but had to get up to go work at the bakery.
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So I would go to bed at one and then get up to wake him up at two. He didn’t ask his wife to do it.
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Then my master died, and I was left there with three children, his wife who was ill, the restaurant, the bakery and other things.
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All I knew was that I had to work. That was it. And I can tell you that you sure work hard under the Germans, isn’t that true?
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Even in the rain, they wear a priest’s hat and go to work in the fields.
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Personal message
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I also want to add that what we did
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get our country to move forward in all these years, everyone can see it.
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Now I’m worried, I would be sad if this heritage were to be lost,
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if the country didn’t preserve the values of our liberation struggle.
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Especially looking back to the 600 partisans we lost, who were killed during the liberation war,
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and not so much for us - but for our youth.
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We need to pass on our memories to keep this alive, in order to move forward,
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