European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had to reach the Reggio Emilia prefecture, in corso Garibaldi,
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all together at 2 pm, but each had to move alone.
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This meant you had to be really committed.
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It wasn’t an everyday thing for a mother living 10 km away to take her bicycle and go in front of the prefecture.
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But people were really starving and tired of the war, and there had been too many people dying.
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So in front of the prefecture were 2000.
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2000 women.
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We arrived at the prefecture and the majority of us entered the courtyard.
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We had appointed three women to go talk with the podestà.
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They were arrested immediately.
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The women who were outside joined us inside the courtyard.
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We started to shout that we wouldn’t leave until they released them.
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We stayed there a few hours and finally saw our comrades walking down the stairs. What were we asking for?
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We were asking for salt and food for our children, especially for those living in the city.
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In the country we always managed to find something to eat. In the city kids were dying of hunger.
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There was a ration card, they didn’t even have a few salad leaves.
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Our groups had found out that the Germans had specific plans for our region.
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Men were to be taken to Germany to work,
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while supplies for the German army on the Gothic front line had to come from the Po valley.
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We realized that we could starve the German army by taking as many things as we could away from the pool.
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