European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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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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One day he told me he wanted to talk to me.
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“The things you’re doing are very important; we were quite surprised by you”.
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He was referring to what I had been doing with Maria Montanari and my cousin.
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We were in a strong and combative group of friends, who shared the same ideals, the same feelings towards life.
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The Germans had already officially announced that those who helped soldiers
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and dodgers to escape would be sentenced to confinement in concentration camps or executed.
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What we were facing wasn’t a joke.
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Torelli went on: “You must try to keep everything that a clandestine army might need,
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because we want to get people to fight to send away the Germans and the fascists”.
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We started to take things out.
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Before I talk about this, I will tell an episode which was really crucial
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for my decision to go on and take part in the Liberation struggle.
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Three or four days after September 8th, the air-raid warning went off.
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We fled on our bicycles.
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After a while we went back home, since we didn’t hear anything and the warning had stopped.
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As I arrived at the beginning of Dalmazia street, as we always fled towards Codemondo or the Canalina,
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the SS were standing in front of the houses.
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In front of my house there was a space we called the “palace”,
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where we used to put tables and chairs in the summer.
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