European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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We didn’t want to organize a political meeting in somebody’s house and put in danger the whole family.
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We decided we would hold it under a tree down the road from Masone to Gavassa.
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I think it was called “al gublein”.
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I didn’t know how many women would show up, because we didn’t ask many questions.
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All I knew is we had to go there. As I arrived, there were four or five of us.
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After a few minutes the political commissioner reached us too.
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He began to tell us what the situation was and how our partisan units in the mountains were coping.
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