European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Then we’d put the tile back and cover it with a chest of drawers.
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It was really hard to notice the hiding-place.
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Torelli at a certain moment told me: “Laila, what you’re doing is not enough.
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You do so much for the partisans and for us, but you need to think about what your future will be”.
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I replied: “Well, let’s just hope it will be a little bit better than now”.
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He said: “If you agree, organize a meeting with all the women you work with and I’ll get a communist leader to come”.
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To us, communists and socialists were just the same, what did we know about politics?
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We had never got involved in it.
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With fascism, you could only read what they gave to you, and you didn’t even have the right to make comments.
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So before we did this meeting I met Paolo Davoli,
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who explained how important it was for women to discuss their future.
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After the war, women would take part in elections and have the same rights as men.
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That was great for us.
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At that point we understood that we could change our future,
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that we had to be more than partisans, acquire consciousness about our role.
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But we were really so ignorant, it was sad.
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I set up two women support groups, we did two or three meetings.
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This worker came, I think he was a mechanic of the factory Bloch.
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Decision to resist
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Torelli was an old antifascist living in our house. He was persecuted and had been in jail.
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