European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was a dispatch rider, I was a secretary, I did everything that needed to be done.
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In the beginning I went to Bologna twice a week,
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picking up weapons and ammunitions if needed, but mostly new orders coming from the central headquarters,
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which we depended on.
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There were the central headquarters and then other headquarters all the way down to the brigades.
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I worked without pause taking part in actions when it was needed,
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shadowing and other actions of our brigade.
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We had places we went to, we called them “recapiti” (addresses), where I brought things for everybody:
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in Carpi, in Fossoli, in the lowlands where we had all our partisans.
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I carried the stuff there and the dispatch riders then carried it to the “recapiti”.
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There were various dispatch riders.
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At the local headquarters I was a secretary but I also had two dispatch riders there.
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One was Carmen (battle name) and the other Vera, who was from Yugoslavia.
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They were assigned to the headquarters of the brigade.
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That’s what the partisan struggle was about.
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Fourteen months of actions.
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If it wasn’t everyday, there was something one night, something else the following and the one after too.
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I did this the whole time, continuously.
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If I wasn’t typewriting, I was riding my bicycle going all over the place, to Bologna or other towns.
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More or less constantly: these actions, these deaths.
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