European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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a in Montecavolo near Quattro Castella (in the province of Reggio Emilia).
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My family had been a miller family
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for over 400 years.
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In 1929 there was a terrible crisis and my father lost a great deal of money,
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mostly because he was a great friend of the parson.
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He had 12 or 14 sharecroppers working for him, so he was really rich,
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and they could not pay him any longer
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with the stuff they used to bring to the mill.
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“Keep calm, you'll see that one day god will ...”
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So they kept taking credits, but the day came when my father lost a lot of money.
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That was when we split up. Me and my brother Portos were both students,
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so we went to Montecchio,
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at Montecchio we owned a nice little house.
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It had already started ...
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I was friends with the family of Jones Bertolini
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who was a really passionate partisan, he got the silver medal,
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that was when I became a communist. His mother was an anti-fascist,
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the father had to emigrate to France,
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they were really poor. I'd seen him only once
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when he came back to Montecchio to meet his parents.
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