European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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My father could not work as he wasn’t a member of the fascist party,
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and the only one who brought home any money at the time was one of my brothers,
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who had been working in the seminary for a long time then and was paid every two weeks.
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My little sister also served in Parma. She was nine or ten years old, and went with a woman.
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In the morning, she tended to little household affairs, in the afternoon she went with the contessa, who was a very old woman. She worked with the Red Cross.
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Then she took her to the hospital. She was crazy about treating the wounded, treating people -- it was a real passion for her. It was because of this she joined the partisans.
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And she was a nurse. She did whatever she could. She would give injections and take care of things. In short, she served the people.
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She also tried to help the partisans and the people in our village: in the mountains nobody had anything at that time.
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My mother, poor woman, was the only one who knew how to give injections, so she was always dashing about, called on by everyone, even at night.
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One day my parents told me to go look for my sister. As I got there I ended up in a mop-up.
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There was also a wounded man with a shattered leg, so my sister and others told me to go with them.
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We went to Quara di Toano, in the mountains, and then moved towards Modena.
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But the following day I decided to go back home, because I had to go tell my parents we were safe.
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There had been a big battle in Carpineti, and they had to retreat to the castle at first, but then they had to escape.
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So I went back home, but my sister didn’t return home until the war was over, a year later.
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I would be going back and forth.
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I went to the mountains a couple of times, since my parents were worried and wanted me to go see if my sister was safe.
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She was only 18 then. When she was in Parma they knew she was with a family, but at that time they were definitely worried.
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I would leave early in the morning and run towards the mountains,
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stopping every now and then to ask people if they had seen a partisan unit with a woman. Actually there were two women in the unit then.
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