European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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but this time it's a roundup, a sweep on a large scale
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that goes from Ciano to Casina, to Castelnovo Monti, all the way up to Vetto.
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The whole area is being closed up and they're trying to get us by encircling us".
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So it was decided to protect all the partisans in the Vetto-Rosano area
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and to bring us down to the Enza river so at night we crossed the river.
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At night the commander told us:
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"Now we have to set up a really safe guard because the Germans are everywhere.
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You can see them, so keep your eyes open and be careful
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because if we happen to do something
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or to kill a German they're going to burn down the entire village".
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So at 3 a.m. we were ordered to move
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because by that time there were no partisans around,
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so we were the last lines moving and could be calm.
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The "staffette" told us that the streets were clear, so we started walking.
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We were looking left and right, there was only fog.
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So we went into the Enza river
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and there was not even a small stick where we could have hidden
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if the fog lifted.
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"Mirco" had a partisan in his team, a big man that lived in this area,
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and he asked to give him a person that could go with him to his place
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