European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Their house at the time was a hideaway.
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They welcomed a lot of people, maybe too many. They also welcomed fleeing foreign soldiers they didn’t know.
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Some of them might have been spies. So they went to the mountains for a while and then came back.
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I guess they went on letting too many people in. We all know what happened afterwards.
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GAP (Armed Partisan Groups)
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GAPs were organized in groups of three.
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This meant that each member knew only about two others and nothing else.
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We all knew that those who were captured were being tortured in Villa Cucchi.
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Just as they did with Paolo Davoli and Tina from Cavriago or Rosellina.
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The GAP and Zanti, whose battle name was Maurizio, had decided to take this measure.
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We initially had groups of three,
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then with time more groups were forming and we met and carryied out joint actions.
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GAPs weren't all the same.
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They weren’t all communist.
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My small group and I were.
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Introduction and family; 8th September 1943; escape from captivity
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My name is Pierino Beggi, battle name “Gigi”.
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I was born in Reggio Emilia.
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Until I was twenty years old, I lived where the Biasola Park is today.
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My father was a farmer and worked on the farm that was once there.
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