European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Maybe my sister had a harder time than I did, as she was always in the mountains with all the boys, but they all truly loved her.
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I know that when she came back to Maro during the summer they would all come to visit her.
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She got married with the commander of her unit and they moved to Genoa, but they still had a house in Maro,
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and when they came back a lot of people would go and see them.
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Women were so respected at that time.
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When I went to the mountains, all the boys from Reggio would come and ask me if I had seen their parents.
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They listened to whatever news I had. You could say I brought life back to them, small as I was, looking like a gipsy and always dirty.
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Honestly, you washed yourself in a ditch when you stopped, and at times you even ended up drinking from the same ditch.
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You were so thirsty that you would drink water wherever you found it, even from a hole in the ground.
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I always say that we were born old, but we also grew day by day.
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You might have forgot about the things of today, but then you’d start thinking about what the future held for you,
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and at the same time you couldn’t forget the things you had to report. My head was spinning the whole time, thinking.
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I would leave Reggio and I would start thinking, remembering all the things that I had not written down.
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As I made it to Albinea I would be thinking again, then in Casina, in order not to forget, until I finally made it up there after a full day.
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I think that women helped a lot during the war.
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Otherwise, how could all these men know when things were happening?
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Sometimes we would even use children, getting them to run somewhere and tell the partisans to run away because the Germans were coming.
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We did whatever we had to do then. But women were really important.
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I’m not saying this for myself: as soon as the war was over that was it, both for me and my sister.
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Even my husband was a partisan, but he joined the Resistance in his village.
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