European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I’d get the Reggio-Ciano train at the station, put my bicycle on the coach and get on.
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Maria was supposed to look at where I was sitting, and come inside.
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We’d pretend we didn’t know each other.
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She would put the package in front of me, at the end of the compartment, and leave.
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They often checked the suitcases.
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We figured that if they found the package, nobody could have told whose it was.
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Everything went alright until San Polo, where the train was surrounded. The fascist police started searching.
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They looked all over the place, under the seats, inside the packages and suitcases.
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But they didn’t notice my package. It was covered with some newspapers.
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When I arrived in Ciano I left the bicycle at the station and followed the Enza river.
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Then I asked them to come pick up this damned radio, because it was almost a 5 km walk from Ciano to Cerresola.
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It wasn’t a very nice journey with that thing. I had no chance of getting through the police blocks, so I solved the problem that way.
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Hiding weapons; developing awareness
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At home, my father took care of the problem of ammunition.
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Since he bottled wine, we had crates full of bottles in the cellar ready to be delivered.
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He had made holes in the crates where he would stuff the ammunition. Then he closed them.
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Our kitchen was right over the cellar.
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The cellar had a vaulted ceiling with an empty space between the vaults.
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My father had taken off some tiles in the kitchen over one of these spaces.
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We hid our weapons, guns and everything else there.
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