European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They asked me about things in the city and I asked them how we should have behaved, etc.
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I really became aware of the differences.
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At home, there was no way you could sleep next to a man!
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Women were vital to the partisans. They could go where men could not. Men had failed to report for military service.
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Everywhere they went, even if they were young, they were taken, searched and sent out to concentration camps at the least.
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As women, we did not have to be in the army or with the fascists. We could move in a way they weren’t allowed to.
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We took care of things like printed materials, propaganda, weapons.
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When a GAP or SAP unit had to move in the lowlands,
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for example if the Rosselli detachment, based in Cavandola, close to Canossa, had to go to Quattro Castella,
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or carry out an action on the Emilia road, it was a woman partisan who would lead the way for the group.
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We were called dispatch riders, but we would lead the way to see what was ahead and then go back to report.
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This was really important.
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Questioned by fascists; Illegality
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They came around a week after they had arrested them, still in August.
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I was questioned for a whole day.
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In the morning I was interrogated by the chief of OPI and by one of the commissioners, I think it was Dr. Cocconi.
In the morning I was interrogated by the chief of OPI and by one of the commissioners, I think it was Dr. Cocconi.
In the morning I was interrogated by the chief of UPI and by one of the commissioners, I think it was Dr. Cocconi. -
He was the cousin of the second-in-command
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of the central headquarters of the partisans operating in the mountains.
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I was questioned very harshly. They were accusing me.
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I was denying, claiming that I had gone there only to get some eggs,
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