European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We had many families of peasants there, wonderful families.
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I said: “I’m going, give me the gun and I’ll head over there”.
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I was given the orders, essentially those that could be remembered and passed on and left.
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I met this patrol. What could I do?
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They ordered me to stop. I pulled my gun and started to shoot.
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I shot while I was riding the bicycle, I shot as long as I could carry on until I reached the right place and inform all the others.
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After that we spread the news quite quickly.
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I managed to get through all these bullets,
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this mess because when it was them shooting they didn’t need to save ammunition.
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We had to do it, but they had plenty.
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But I made it. The battle went well and they survived.
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We might laugh about it now, but can you figure out how many comrades survived when they all could have died?
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I didn’t even know this episode was known,
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until one day the Carabinieri came knocking at my door telling me
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that I would be awarded by the army, by the government.
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I would be awarded a silver medal for military valour.
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I wasn’t even proud of this, since I didn’t know that from such a story one could obtain this medal.
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Activities as a partisan; battle-name
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They called me Aurora and told me:
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“Aurora, here we need someone who stays on duty the whole time”.
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