European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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At Christmas 1944 we collected biscuits, sweets and cakes.
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I stored some at my house, since I was the one in charge and I preferred to keep dangerous things at my place.
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Participation in that case was really huge. From that moment Women support groups became a much larger organization,
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compared to the three or four antifascist women we were before.
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Women were sensational. I found myself with a pile of cases full of stuff.
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Then Valenti, a guy from Arceto, came over with his cart. He was the father of the one they called “Valenti the bandit”.
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He wanted to make amends for his son. He came to my house at dawn and we loaded everything.
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Women had prepared things that would last. We attached many Christmas cards to them.
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Each woman wanted to send out a short note to the partisans.
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We wanted to show them that we were close,
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so that they wouldn’t suffer so much from being away from their families.
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We felt that women were silently behind us in our struggle for peace,
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waiting for the war to be over, so it wasn’t hard.
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We shared the tasks house by house.
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It was decided we would pass the word house by house and in small groups.
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We had to reach the Reggio Emilia prefecture, in corso Garibaldi,
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all together at 2 pm, but each had to move alone.
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This meant you had to be really committed.
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It wasn’t an everyday thing for a mother living 10 km away to take her bicycle and go in front of the prefecture.
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But people were really starving and tired of the war, and there had been too many people dying.
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