European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It was surprising for me to see blacks, as well as Indians with a turban around their head.
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The infantry had come behind the tanks.
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Then they lined up along the Via Emilia, from Rubiera to Reggio.
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When we got there, the partisans had already arrived from the mountains, too.
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As we reached the hospice, the partisan parade was stopped, since it was still dangerous inside the city.
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There were many sniper casualties in the following days.
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We simply turned around and went back home, but you can’t count the parades we did afterwards.
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Women’s support for the partisans
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At Christmas 1944 we collected biscuits, sweets and cakes.
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I stored some at my house, since I was the one in charge and I preferred to keep dangerous things at my place.
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Participation in that case was really huge. From that moment Women support groups became a much larger organization,
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compared to the three or four antifascist women we were before.
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Women were sensational. I found myself with a pile of cases full of stuff.
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Then Valenti, a guy from Arceto, came over with his cart. He was the father of the one they called “Valenti the bandit”.
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He wanted to make amends for his son. He came to my house at dawn and we loaded everything.
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Women had prepared things that would last. We attached many Christmas cards to them.
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Each woman wanted to send out a short note to the partisans.
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We wanted to show them that we were close,
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so that they wouldn’t suffer so much from being away from their families.
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We felt that women were silently behind us in our struggle for peace,
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