European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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and suddenly was hit by sadness. Not because I was leaving that place,
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but because I had seen too many of my comrades die.
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Leaves her fiancé to stay a partisan
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There were more and more women in the mountains by then, because some had been arrested and tortured.
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When they were in danger they went to the mountains to the partisans.
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The public opinion started talking about what women would be doing there, ill-minded.
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I had to clash with this idea, too.
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I had been on the Barazzone with the detachment for a month
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when they told me to go to Cerresola, as my boyfriend Nanzio Corrada was waiting for me.
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I went to meet him and as soon as I saw his face I understood that a storm was brewing here.
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He told me right away that I had to leave with him.
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I asked him why, since I had run away in order not to be executed.
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Did he think it was right for me to go back home?
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He continued, “We’ll get married, then you’ll come to Varese and nobody will look for you”.
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“So you think that if we get married, hand out the information they need, they’d let me go to Varese?
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Would you be happier if I’m tortured? You’re really joking”.
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I added, “I took this decision, why should I leave now?”
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To which he replied: “If you stay here, you’re not worthy of raising my children”.
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That was really it, I couldn’t take it anymore.
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In the past we had already argued over the role of the woman in the family.
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