European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They put sergeants there as guards, and I was a sergeant, they wouldn't let anyone pass.
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I had no Lira in my pocket, only Kunas, the Croatian currency.
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There was a greengrocer there and I wanted grapes
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so I went there to take a look and the lady said:
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“Do you want grapes?” and I said “Yes madam, but I have no money”.
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So she gave me the grapes for free.
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She was like a mother, she asked me where I came from
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and she said that the Germans were coming up from Jesi, from Ancona,
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and that they were seizing the soldiers.
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I went back and talked to the other seven fellows from Reggio Emilia.
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Three came with me, we went home,
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we had a hard time but after eleven days we reached our homes walking and by train.
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We wanted to be home by September because then there would be grapes and figs,
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there would be something to eat, whereas there was nothing at the place we were staying.
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In Reggio I stayed at some poor peoples' house.
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The villa in front of the house where the landlord was living was full of Germans.
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I stayed there, hiding, with little to eat, nothing to smoke, it was hard.
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Connected through a friend of mine, I went to help a peasant harvesting grapes,
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stayed there two-three days. Then they sent me back home,
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they paid me for those couple of days and then his grandfather didn't want me around anymore because I'd escaped.
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