European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I used to be told to shut up because I was a woman even at home.
I used to be told to shut up because I was a woman even at home.
In fact, I used to be told even in my own home, "Shut up. You are a woman." -
My mother thought this was right.
My mother thought this was right.
And my mother, poor woman, thought this was right. -
In the city I started meeting women who went to work.
In the city I started meeting women who went to work.
Here, I instead started meeting women that went to work -
The working class elite used to live in Dalmazia street.
The working class elite used to live in Dalmazia street.
and Dalmazia Street was a street where the working-class elites of the city lived. -
Reggiane factory technicians of the water and gas companies.
Reggiane factory technicians of the water and gas companies.
There were factory technicians, gas technicians, water technicians. -
They were a very bright, mature and well-prepared group of working class people.
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We moved there in 1938; I had just turned 17. We had a restaurant with a bar.
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Although I was quite young, I was very curious. I had always been like that.
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The older men liked me. They started to explain to me what I had known only in general terms.
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What fascism really was, the real reasons behind its existence,
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for it was only violence and ignorance to me at that time.
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These men were generally Communists and Socialists.
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I began to understand and to see things from a different point of view that attracted me more.
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I had made friends with the young men who came to our bar.
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When they left for war I became their communication point.
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They were writing from Africa,
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from France, from Russia, asking for news about each other.
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I started to have a broader view of the war, compared to those who only had letters from their relatives.
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Introduction, family
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I was born in Roncolo di Quattro Castella on the 21st of May 1921.
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