European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I had a cousin who had been incarcerated, his name was Nello Strozzi.
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And then also my boyfriend’s brother.
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Me and my boyfriend had started dating when I was eighteen,
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he was of the Viani family, his name was Alfeo.
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Introduction, childhood during fascism
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My name is Lidia Valeriani.
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I was born on the 23rd of January 1923
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in Montecavolo di Quattro Castella,
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in a small hamlet called Scampate.
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Awful fascist times.
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My father was a victim of political persecution.
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I had two brothers older than I,
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and six more followed, making us a family of nine brothers.
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As soon as we started to go to school,
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we already understood that things were different for us children of antifascists,
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compared to those of the fascists, who were enrolled in the “Balilla”, in the “Piccole Italiane” - the fascist youth organizations.
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I noticed and realized this when I was six,
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and I started asking my father why we were considered differently from the others.
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My father tried to explain it to me, as best he could since I was still a little girl.
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He would have never enlisted us in the “Piccole Italiane”, or the boys in the “Balilla”.
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