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We were starving in the other detachment but here they had food.

And it was a richer area, there were peasants whereas there only woods and nothing else existed.

And he said: "No, I'm fine in my group, we'll talk about it".

But we didn't talk anymore

and then the massacre of the Cervi detachment happened, they were all killed.

They got surrounded and surrendered but were all killed.

We were very disappointed by then.

Our spirits were really low and we had only negative perspectives.

When the commemoration here will be held on the 17th, or on the 21st

because it's always being celebrated on Sundays,

I will go and take a look at the Cervi detachment.

I can always say I was lucky because two or three times it was a coincidence and I always was lucky.

Searching for the partisans

By that time Dalmazia Street and Dante Zanichelli Street became

something like an island

because everybody went to stay outside the city centre

where there were continuous bombings.

One evening I, Armando and Orvillo,

the one on the picture, met outside the Ariosto Theatre

at 8 o'clock because it was curfew time