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<b>I was in Milan...</b>

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<b>There I picked up a machine gun in parts</b>

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<b>and put everything into a suitcase,</b>
<b>a suitcase from my father.</b>

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<b>And then I arrived here in Laveno.</b>

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<b>Here I had to take the boat to</b>
<b>bring the gun to the mountains.</b>

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<b>When I arrived...</b>

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<b>I got scared and thought, now it's over.</b>

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<b>They will see me and kill me.</b>

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<b>Come on, put it inside, 
put it inside.</b>

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<b>SEVENTEEN</b>

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<b>You don’t know what happened 
in times of war.</b>

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<b>When you ask young people today,</b>
<b>if they know what the partisans did...</b>

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<b>“Oh, they just created problems.”</b>

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<b>I had an older brother 
who was also a partisan.</b>

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<b>But in our family everyone else was a fascist.</b>

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<b>We had Mussolini, the leader of fascism</b>

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<b>All of Italy was at his feet.</b>

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<b>So... I was a fascist too.</b>

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<b>I was on fascist manifestations
because I was a child.</b>

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<b>On Saturdays, we always went to
the manifestations.</b>

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<b>Then I met a priest in Cuggiono
close to Milan.</b>

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<b>He explained to us what fascism really is.</b>

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<b>So then we were a whole group who
became anti-fascists.</b>

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<b>We started working, painted slogans 
on the walls.</b>

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<b>Until we started doing bigger things.</b>

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<b>In Milan they told me to pick a number.</b>

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<b>I said "seventeen".</b>

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<b>Because I was seventeen years old.</b>

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<b>So we started to transport weapons.</b>

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<b>Because the guys in the mountains 
they couldn’t move.</b>

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<b>If they got down, they would 
have been caught.</b>

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<b>So it was us women who did this work.</b>

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<b>There was always a danger that
we would get caught.</b>

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<b>They would at least rape you, if not worse.</b>

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<b>There was this Osteria where 
we would all meet.</b>

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<b>There I met people who wanted 
to join the partisans.</b>

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<b>So I took them to the mountains.</b>

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<b>We, the runner girls, we gave it our all.</b>

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<b>These were amazing girls.</b>

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<b>And so many of us died.</b>

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<b>I was in Scareno and I monitored
the infirmary there.</b>

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<b>The people from the village
helped us tremendously.</b>

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<b>All the villagers.</b>

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<b>Because their children had all been
sent to the war.</b>

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<b>And everyone was asking:
Where are our children?</b>

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<b>That’s why they were on our side.</b>

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<b>Sometimes I had to get medicine 
from the hospital.</b>

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<b>I would go from Scareno at night...</b>

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<b>I crossed the river and walked to Esio.</b>

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<b>The hospital was where it is still today.</b>

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<b>So the nurse came out at night...</b>

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<b>She gave me the medicine that I needed.</b>

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<b>When it was cold there was snow,</b>
<b>and sometimes a lot of snow.</b>

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<b>We adapted.</b>

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<b>We tried to keep as warm as possible.</b>

56
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<b>We didn’t even have wood, sometimes</b>
<b>the farmers gave us some.</b>

57
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<b>Or when we were very cold, they let</b>
<b>us warm up in their houses.</b>

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<b>Oh how hungry I was...
There was not much to eat.</b>

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<b>If there was something, we always gave</b>
<b>it to the sick and wounded.</b>

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<b>I was as thin as a woodpecker, 
after the war.</b>

61
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<b>And then I helped a lot of Jews.</b>

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<b>I only spoke to one of them and told him:</b>

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<b>Tell them to follow me but never 
to speak to me.</b>

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<b>They mustn’t speak to me because 
that was dangerous.</b>

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<b>If they would catch a Jew they would 
let them betray</b>

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<b>and talk... okay.</b>

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<b>I brought them to Intragna.</b>

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<b>And in Intragna there were smugglers</b>
<b>who brought them to Switzerland.</b>

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<b>I took Jews, I brought weapons,</b>

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<b>food, all that...</b>

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<b>But then it got very dangerous.</b>

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<b>I had moments when I just wanted to cry.</b>

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<b>When I got to Pizzo Marona and saw
all those dead bodies...</b>

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<b>I said: This is impossible.</b>

75
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<b>Ah, Madonna... I have never been 
back to Marona.</b>

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<b>They killed so many there.</b>

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<b>They threw them into the valley, naked.</b>

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<b>Is it worth it?</b>

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<b>To get to be 20 years old and then get killed?</b>

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<b>I see them again and again, 
I see their faces.</b>

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<b>I see my friends in front of me.</b>

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<b>And now? They are all dead.</b>

83
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<b>We have won the war,
but what does it even mean.</b>

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<b>We didn’t even know, what it was 
that we had won.</b>

85
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<b>We haven’t noticed anything.</b>

86
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<b>I had hoped that things would change.</b>

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<b>Even after the war I went to manifestations.</b>

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<b>We were fighting for a just government.</b>

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<b>No, please. That such a thing 
never happens again.</b>

90
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<b>There are no more living partisans 
here anymore.</b>

91
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<b>I don’t know a single one.</b>

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<b>I am the last one, old and senil...
No, senil I am not.</b>

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<b>Blessed are those peoples </b>
<b>who have no need of heroes</b>