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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.

There had already been some in other places.

I was a member of the committee who prepared the strike,

we got together quite a few times,

the last meeting was at my house.

My father agreed, so we had the meeting and assigned the tasks.

Alberta and I got together early in the morning (we had already handed out all the leaflets)

and went to Montecavolo, stopping by all the farmers’ homes who were milking the cows,

and telling them “remember that there’s a strike later, after you take the milk to the dairy, join in”.

“Alright, yes, we’ll be there”, they replied.