European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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to get in contact with the antifascists, but it was impossible.
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It was already the summer of ’43 when I went to Sassuolo to visit a friend.
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I knew him as an antifascist, hoping he could help me to become part of the movement.
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He told me he couldn’t, since he was indeed an antifascist but he wasn’t organized.
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There was another comrade in my department
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who I was friend with, his name was Armando Grassi from Gattaglio.
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I told him I wanted to be involved and I finally convinced him.
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He put me in touch with a guy called Corradini,
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whose name I actually found out only after the war, and that he was from Cavazzoli.
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From then on I became active in the underground movement.
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At the beginning I didn’t do much.
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I really started after the fall of Mussolini, on the 8th of September.
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After that we really began to look for weapons.
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I lived 500 meters away from the rail tracks.
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Nearly our whole Azione Cattolica group started to go there
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to slow the trains down before they arrived in Reggio.
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The soldiers on the train got off before the train left again.
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We took them to the rectory. We dressed some in plain clothes, others as priests.
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I dressed as an acolyte, since I was 19 but looked younger.
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I remember bringing a guy called Catellani all the way home to Sesso.
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