European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We decided we would hold it under a tree down the road from Masone to Gavassa.
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I think it was called “al gublein”.
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I didn’t know how many women would show up, because we didn’t ask many questions.
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All I knew is we had to go there. As I arrived, there were four or five of us.
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After a few minutes the political commissioner reached us too.
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He began to tell us what the situation was and how our partisan units in the mountains were coping.
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He told us our work was very valuable and we should carry on with it.
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He also added that women were putting themselves in a strong position for their rights to be accepted.
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They were already talking about what would change after the Liberation, about the right to vote for women.
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The commissioner explained to us that the right to vote was the most significant right women could have.
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Throughout history it had not been acknowledged.
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It was the first step towards women’s liberation.
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That was the first time I heard somebody talk about these issues and about emancipation, such a great word.
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Normal, every-day danger
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I used to ride my bicycle from Castellazzo to piazza Fontanesi in Reggio,
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to go tell the landlord if we were buying or selling. Since we were sharecroppers, we had to report to him everything that concerned the land.
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I had to do this journey many times, and I often had to jump in the ditch to hide from the airplanes.
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One day I asked myself if they would fire at a bicycle. I kept going on the road, as the airplane was bearing down on me.
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One time I was stopped at the checkpoint by the hospice.
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There was always one there, but that day a man had been killed.
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