European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I stayed there, hiding, with little to eat, nothing to smoke, it was hard.
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Connected through a friend of mine, I went to help a peasant harvesting grapes,
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stayed there two-three days. Then they sent me back home,
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they paid me for those couple of days and then his grandfather didn't want me around anymore because I'd escaped.
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It was terrible.
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I spent some more time hiding in Reggio without money,
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without anything, under the curfew, it was a terrible life.
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I heard about the partisans and I simply went up to the mountains and joined them, that's all.
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I went to my family living in the Gardenia quarter in Reggio Emilia.
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It was a reaction, yes, i had two brothers in the army.
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One was in Germany and we didn't know anything about him,
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the other one took a different way but we didn't know anything about him, either.
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It was just very, very sad.
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They were happy that I'd come back but they kept thinking about the other two that were missing, too.
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Army and war
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I started military service on March 9th, 1940.
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I went to Trieste and then right off to the Yugoslavian border.
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I stayed there until September 8th, 1943,
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shooting and being shot at and so on.
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I have been all over Yugoslavia,
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