European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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One of us was sleeping in the corner, another one was ill, and they would send us all outside to do some exercise.
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We wore wooden shoes that could easily be lost while walking down the three steps that led to each shack.
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Then they would have us walk in circles for hours, sometimes under the rain.
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Episodes of this kind were not too frequent, but definitely happened.
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I was arrested, or, I should rather say, we were loaded on their trains on the 16th of September,
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and made it home only two years later, on the 14th of September.
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We were near the Ruhr area, where most armament factories were located,
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including the tank factories that the Americans used to attack with special bombs, in order to breach them.
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We were bombarded every night, so I didn’t even think of running away,
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because it would have meant running under these same bombs.
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That’s what we went through.
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Four years of confinement in Matera
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We were taken to a farming penal colony, called “Colonia Confinati di Pisticci”, near Matera.
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It was a farming colony, so once we got there we began to work.
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If you want I can quickly tell you this story. The issue with this colony was
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that it was opened when they had to close down the island of Ponza.
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You see, in Ponza there were people like Terracini, Volponi, Cuccimarro
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and other guys of this kind, who were lawyers.
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As a consequence, everyone who was there, even the smallest farmer,
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would be schooled by the time he left the colony: they all studied!
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