European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was respected and highly esteemed. Not only because of my stripes,
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but because of the way I took care of difficult operations.
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I didn’t want to go back home constantly having to listen to what my father or my brother said.
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As soon as I got home I told my father I didn’t want to work at home anymore.
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I wanted to shape my own life, find a job and become self-sufficient.
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At home I felt repressed. My father agreed.
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I started working, setting up women sections and the feminist movement.
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I studied in a party school and was sent to take care of trade-unions.
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I started to get involved in the movement for the protection of women’s rights.
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I had decided I would work for all those who had died, to accomplish what they had hoped for.
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Their dreams were also mine.
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We wanted a few simple things:
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a job, a chance to support our families properly, the right to send our children to school,
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to live in a democratic society, maintain our individual values and at the same time defend the rights of the community.
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So as soon as I started working for the party, I set up women sections, even if I wasn’t particularly skilled.
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Women were all coming from the same background I came from.
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We had to discuss together about our own issues, learn to vote, identify our problems and develop our demands.
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If we discussed with men, women would not speak out.
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Having a women-only group allowed us to develop those issues and build up our claims.
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After the war there was dramatic poverty. The children were on the street.
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