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I was in Milan...
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There I picked up a machine gun in parts
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and put everything into a suitcase,
a suitcase from my father.
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And then I arrived here in Laveno.
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Here I had to take the boat to
bring the gun to the mountains.
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When I arrived...
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I got scared and thought, now it's over.
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They will see me and kill me.
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come on, put it inside, put it inside.
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You don’t know what happened in times of war.
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When you ask young people today,
if they know what the partisans did...
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“Oh, they just created problems”.
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I had an older brother who was also a partisan.
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But in our family everyone else was a fascist.
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We had Mussolini, the leader of fascism
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All of Italy was at his feet.
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So... I was a fascist too.
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I was on fascist manifestations
because I was a child.
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On Saturdays, we always went to
the manifestations.
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Then I met a priest in Cuggiono
close to Milan.
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He explained to us what fascism really is.
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So then we were a whole group who
became anti-fascists.
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We started working, painted slogans on the walls.
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Until we started doing bigger things.
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In Milan they told me to pick a number.
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I said "seventeen".
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Because I was seventeen years old.
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So we started to transport weapons.
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Because the guys in the mountains they couldn’t move.
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If they got down, they would have been caught.
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So it was us women who did this work.
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There was always a danger that
we would get caught.
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They would at least rape you, if not worse.
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There was this Osteria where we would all meet.
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There I met people who wanted to join the partisans.
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So I took them to the mountains.
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We, the runner girls, we gave it our all.
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These were amazing girls.
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And so many of us died.
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I was in Scareno and I monitored
the infirmary there.
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The people from the village
helped us tremendously.
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All the villagers.
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Because their children had all been
sent to the war.
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And everyone was asking:
Where are our children?
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That’s why they were on our side.
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Sometimes I had to get medicine from the hospital.
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I would go from Scareno at night...
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I crossed the river and walked to Esio.
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The hospital was where it is still today.
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So the nurse came out at night...
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She gave me the medicine that I needed.
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When it was cold there was snow,
and sometimes a lot of snow.
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We adapted.
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We tried to keep as warm as possible.
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We didn’t even have wood, sometimes
the farmers gave us some.
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Or when we were very cold, they let
us warm up in their houses.
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Oh how hungry I was...
There was not much to eat.
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If there was something, we always gave
it to the sick and wounded.
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I was as thin as a woodpecker, after the war.
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And then I helped a lot of Jews.
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I only spoke to one of them and told him:
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Tell them to follow me but never to speak to me.
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They mustn’t speak to me because that was dangerous.
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If they would catch a Jew they would let them betray
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and talk... okay.
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I brought them to Intragna.
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And in Intragna there were smugglers
who brought them to Switzerland.
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I took Jews, I brought weapons,
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food, all that...
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But then it got very dangerous.
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I had moments when I just wanted to cry.
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When I got to Pizzo Marona and saw
all those dead bodies...
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I said: This is impossible.
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Ah, Madonna... I have never been back to Marona.
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They killed so many there.
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They threw them into the valley, naked.
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Is it worth it?
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To get to be 20 years old and then get killed?
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I see them again and again, I see their faces.
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I see my friends in front of me.
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And now? They are all dead.
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We have won the war, but what does it even mean.
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We didn’t even know, what it was that we had won.
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We haven’t noticed anything.
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I had hoped that things would change.
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Even after the war I went to manifestations.
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We were fighting for a just government.
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No, please. That such a thing never happens again.
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There are no more living partisans here anymore.
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I don’t know a single one.
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I am the last one, old and senil...
No, senil I am not.
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Blessed are people who don't need heroes.