European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

They focused on Montecavolo, while in Rivalta the strike didn’t work out

because somebody was telling people “not to go in order not to get killed”.

It could have been so, but these battles had to be done,

they were part of what we were fighting for.

We had to fight in order to get rid of all this.

At my home they arrested Antinea, Liliana and Narciso, the only ones they found.

Narciso was ten, he would turn eleven in September and we were in March at the time.

Later on they brought him back home, keeping Antinea and Liliana under arrest.

My mother had stayed at home with the younger ones,

as Beatrice who was 5 (she was born in 1939),

and they had bagged some things to save them if they came to burn the house.

They arrested everybody.

They hadn’t found my father, they only caught him 7 or 8 days later, and sent him to a concentration camp in Germany.

They also went to the Aleotti family and arrested the youngest one,

a friend of Chico Catellani,

and the oldest one – they only found those two – and sent them to Germany as well.

The youngest one was like 16-17 years old.

That night from the Ghiardo we could see the fire in Scampate, since they were burning down all the houses like that.

Strike on the 1st of March 1944

Then we organized the strike on 1st of March.