European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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“Well, I have just got here”.
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She offered to go tell my parents to come greet me, but before she left I asked her what the situation was, since she knew my family.
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“Everyone is alive”, she said,
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“and your brother has just come back from Switzerland”.
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Then she ran to my parents’ home to give them the good news.
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I will never forget my mother running towards me in tears.
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She could not take it anymore, just like me, and that’s the first time I cried.
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I usually shed tears every time I tell this story, so today I’m lucky: this morning I managed not to cry.
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And that’s the end of the story.
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I got back in touch with my old contacts and began looking for a job.
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I received many offers that I didn’t accept,
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then I just went on with my new job, at Giglio,
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Latterie Cooperative Riunite (the United Dairy Cooperative). I’ve worked there for thirty-six years.
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Trying to stay alive
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At that point I was determined to come back home,
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I could not stand ending up like that anymore.
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I ate just as bad as the others,
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although my doctor tells me today that those two years in Germany
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were good for my health and helped me to stay alive.
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I didn’t do much, but I was never scared of not being able to make it home one day.
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