European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It was just what I was looking for. I wanted to do something, to help, but I didn’t know how.
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They gave me a chance to do something for my family
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and to support the antifascist ideals I was starting to believe in.
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I started to collect the “soccorso rosso” (red aid).
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The little amount of money antifascists could rely on to support those families
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whose parents or brothers had to flee after being persecuted by the regime.
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It was just natural to me.
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After all I had suffered, joining the Communist party meant
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doing something for the vision I had developed.
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I would also be doing something for my brother and to grant people a chance to live better.
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I became a communist day by day, taking in the atmosphere around me.
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At fifteen, I can’t say I was aware of what was going on.
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Given my life, however, joining the Communist party was the natural answer.
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There was no other solution, no doubts of any sort.
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Education: news in the cattle shed, books
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In the winter we used the cattle shed as our meeting place.
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Friends could finally spend some time together.
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Social and political activities took place in the cattle shed,
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as well as love affairs, since boys and girls met there.
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I would sneak in and day by day my curiosity would grow.
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