European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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It wasn’t a very nice journey with that thing. I had no chance of getting through the police blocks, so I solved the problem that way.
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Hiding weapons; developing awareness
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At home, my father took care of the problem of ammunition.
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Since he bottled wine, we had crates full of bottles in the cellar ready to be delivered.
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He had made holes in the crates where he would stuff the ammunition. Then he closed them.
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Our kitchen was right over the cellar.
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The cellar had a vaulted ceiling with an empty space between the vaults.
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My father had taken off some tiles in the kitchen over one of these spaces.
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We hid our weapons, guns and everything else there.
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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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