European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Four years of confinement in Matera
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We were taken to a farming penal colony, called “Colonia Confinati di Pisticci”, near Matera.
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It was a farming colony, so once we got there we began to work.
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If you want I can quickly tell you this story. The issue with this colony was
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that it was opened when they had to close down the island of Ponza.
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You see, in Ponza there were people like Terracini, Volponi, Cuccimarro
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and other guys of this kind, who were lawyers.
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As a consequence, everyone who was there, even the smallest farmer,
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would be schooled by the time he left the colony: they all studied!
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Terracini was there, for example, and when it was time to eat
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– there were large tables for eight – he took that time to explain things to the others.
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It was mostly for this reason that they decided to close down the island of Ponza.
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Some were sent to Ventotene, others were transferred to Pisticci with us,
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such as Bigi, the Member of Parliament, or Bonini.
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By the time I left the colony, there were almost three thousand people confined in Pisticci:
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not only political prisoners, but a bit of everything, including spies.
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For three years I drove a tractor.
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We arrived at the offices of the colony, where we were divided in three sheds,
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since we were seventeen or eighteen.
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As I walked in, others were already inside.
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