European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We did that during the winter,

collecting things, preparing people, preparing women

in order to have some homes ready to hide in for one night for those who didn’t know where to stay before they left for the mountains.

That’s more or less what we did.

We delivered orders…

At that point some were already properly organized.

My military duties, I carried them out supporting the comrades who were in the mountains and those who had to hide.

Propaganda, handing out leaflets, secretly bringing them all over the place at night.

Then the strikes slowly began.

The strikes against the war had started, and we got ready for the strike of the 1st of March.

Work in the family

Before he married my mother, my father was

with a family of peasants who were working for my mother’s family, who were called “servants” at the time.

With other co-workers from Montecavolo they set up a sort of business;

they had the machinery for threshing and ploughing the land, so 4 or 5 of them got together and started this activity.

After that he always did that job, he was always a thresher:

they went out to plough, to thresh, these type of things.

When I was 10 I started to work as a seamstress, or I should say to learn how to be a seamstress.

I helped my mother out a little, because we also had about 20.000 square meters of land,

we had a cow or two for milk, in order to go to the dairy to get some cheese, butter, etc.