European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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One day my parents told me to go look for my sister. As I got there I ended up in a mop-up.
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There was also a wounded man with a shattered leg, so my sister and others told me to go with them.
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We went to Quara di Toano, in the mountains, and then moved towards Modena.
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But the following day I decided to go back home, because I had to go tell my parents we were safe.
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There had been a big battle in Carpineti, and they had to retreat to the castle at first, but then they had to escape.
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So I went back home, but my sister didn’t return home until the war was over, a year later.
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I would be going back and forth.
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I went to the mountains a couple of times, since my parents were worried and wanted me to go see if my sister was safe.
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She was only 18 then. When she was in Parma they knew she was with a family, but at that time they were definitely worried.
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I would leave early in the morning and run towards the mountains,
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stopping every now and then to ask people if they had seen a partisan unit with a woman. Actually there were two women in the unit then.
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Somebody finally knew where they were, taking me to Gova, towards Mt. Penna, very far away.
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They had run away there because the Germans were looking for them.
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She would always walk behind the rest of the group because she would take care of the wounded.
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She wouldn’t carry them, there were others who would help her, but they didn’t have vehicles or horses, nothing at all,
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so they would often improvise a stretcher – they called it a ladder – and put a cloth over it, if they had one.
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That’s how four men would carry the wounded.
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Brother at war
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My oldest brother had already left for the war in 1939.
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I was looking at some postcards the other night, and the first were sent in 1939 from Albania.
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