European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Today, when you realise how courageous the people were –

then again it involved the ‘head’ and the people didn’t have a clue.

The plain people were the ones that helped the rebellion.

Without the help of the rural population, resistance would have been impossible.

Only because of this it was possible that the number of partisans became bigger each day.

And the hope that one day things would change.

Life after war

My family was fortunate.

I made it back home, my father and Avvenire came back from Germany, Davide was in the mountains too:

he was one of the leaders and later became deputy police prefect here.

We were all alive, all nine of us and our parents.

After that we always worked for peace, freedom and equality.

We’re still working for this!

Sixty years ago, we thought that things would be better for you, our nephews.

That life would be a little more peaceful. Not too much, only a little bit, because you too are not peaceful yet.

We did everything for our sons and nephews to have a better world:

not only our sons but for the whole world, freed from wars, hardship, all terrible things.

We still have terrible things going on.

Many say: “we fought for nothing”. No!

We fought for a prosperous future.