European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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My sister Margherita worked as a day-labourer or in the rice-fields.
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Another sister was a dress-maker.
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My father was an antifascist,
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although he wasn’t really organized in the antifascist movement.
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Nobody in my family was a fascist,
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but they weren’t organized, apart from me. I was in “Azione Cattolica” (Catholic Action).
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When I was twelve, Don Luca Pallai, who was Villa Cella’s parish priest and later also joined the Resistance,
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kept pressing my parents to send me to study to become a priest.
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I believed in God and lived by the church.
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I was the only one of our family who went to church.
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I finished elementary school
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and went to work when I was twelve.
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However, when I was just a little older than 14,
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my father and the bailiff had a small dispute, so I got fired and was left unemployed.
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I went to the employment agency to get a job at the Reggiane mechanical plant.
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They kept telling me to come back the following month.
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But every morning for the following forty days, I turned up at the employment agency before they opened.
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I guess I wore them out, because one morning they finally told me to come inside.
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They were going to let me work at the Reggiane.
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The Reggiane mechanical plant was
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