European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The Germans who were in charge of the camp stayed in the first two shacks,
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then there were two shacks of female prisoners – Russian women who worked on the railroad tracks with smaller shovels –
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then the French, and finally us. I don’t know how many thousands prisoners were in the camp.
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I should not forget to say that, at that point, I was still accompanied by two non-commissioned officers
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who had kept my documents since the day we had embarked to leave Albania.
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One of them was from Cosenza, the other from Catanzaro, and I think they were supposed to go back to Italy on special leave.
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When everything changed I was slightly worried: the two were beginning to need something to drink,
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and I was aware of how the Germans were not particularly fond of communists.
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One night, the Germans needed thirty people and came over to our shack.
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The two officers had been entitled to bunk beds, so they were sleeping in a corner of the shack.
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We slept on straw on the floor, and I managed to get into the group that was leaving.
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I never knew anything about them afterwards, and maybe I shouldn’t have done this,
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but I was afraid they would hand my documents to a guard. The guards were brutal there.
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They used to come inside in the morning, screaming the word “Aufstehn”,
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At first, we wondered what we were supposed to do – maybe get some coffee! –
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then four or five of them came inside and started acting rough.
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We immediately understood that we had to get up, even if we couldn’t understand the word.
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They were really mean there, so I left and went to this other camp,
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by a large river that had just been bombed, where we started to work.
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I lost all contact with the two officers afterwards, since that place was basically a marshalling camp,
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