European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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In 1939 my mother died.
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She couldn't face the situation any longer when the landlord sent us a letter
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telling us that she could not maintain an antifascist family.
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I was fourteen and both my parents were dead.
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Then we had to leave everything, all our friends and all we had.
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We moved to Gazzata di San Martino in Rio.
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We were lucky to find a landlord willing to give us a piece of land to farm.
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I guess they already knew we were antifascists.
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They asked me if I wanted to help them out
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in a few tasks to support the Communist party.
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They needed somebody who wouldn’t be noticed much.
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It was just what I was looking for. I wanted to do something, to help, but I didn’t know how.
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They gave me a chance to do something for my family
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and to support the antifascist ideals I was starting to believe in.
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I started to collect the “soccorso rosso” (red aid).
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The little amount of money antifascists could rely on to support those families
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whose parents or brothers had to flee after being persecuted by the regime.
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It was just natural to me.
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After all I had suffered, joining the Communist party meant
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doing something for the vision I had developed.
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