European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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just like many others who were less fortunate than I was.
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At Reggiane we used to manufacture airplanes.
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Colleagues like Ganassi, Bagnacani or Catellani were all sent to jail after being caught putting sand in the engine cylinders.
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But they were all thirty or so, were already married and often had children,
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and that’s the kind of people they hit harder on.
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They didn’t really insist with us, we were left somehow ignored.
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My boss always used to say that
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when the soldiers would come back, they would have to become members of the Party if they wanted to work in the factory”.
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They were my teachers, they taught me how to take care of things.
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At the time we were collecting money for the so-called Red Relief,
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and I was the one in charge for Rivalta: we collected money and gave it to the Party.
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Those who were facing the worst situation were indeed those who had been combatants in Spain,
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but some of our comrades from Rivalta, like Fontanesi, had also been imprisoned,
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so the Party tried to help their families as much as possible.
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On Sundays we used to set up stalls in the square to sell things, or we organized lotteries:
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on one occasion, the first prize was a hen that a farmer had given to us
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to collect some of the money that was needed.
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Antifascist family
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I was born in Gavasseto.
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I had three sisters, my mother and father were socialists.
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