European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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My father worked whenever he could find work.
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He only had a regular job in the summer, when he left for almost two months to go thresh the fields.
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You can still see those machines around the villages during the threshing season,
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and he was very good with them, so they would go work for almost two months.
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My father worked for this family every summer for 42 years,
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and that was the only regular salary throughout the year.
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At times he would also manage to work for a couple of weeks, once or twice a year.
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We were doing fine because my mother worked as a dressmaker and was able to earn a little money.
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She was very good at her job and worked for a family who paid her well.
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Nevertheless, we were nine in our family, so my brothers went to work as soon as they could.
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My sister was ten when she left home and went to work in Parma for a lady who was living alone.
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I went to Switzerland and worked there with a family for ten years.
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I was the one who had to wake up my master at two in the morning, knocking on the door and shouting, “It’s two o’ clock”.
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I was 19 or 20 years old then. He trusted me; he would go to bed at ten but had to get up to go work at the bakery.
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So I would go to bed at one and then get up to wake him up at two. He didn’t ask his wife to do it.
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Then my master died, and I was left there with three children, his wife who was ill, the restaurant, the bakery and other things.
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All I knew was that I had to work. That was it. And I can tell you that you sure work hard under the Germans, isn’t that true?
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Even in the rain, they wear a priest’s hat and go to work in the fields.
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