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First Martin, Rovarè of San Biagio di Callalta (TV)

Born October 26, 1907. Montello resident in the village Santa Maria della Vittoria.

1986/25 Tape - Side A October 26, 1986

Our family broke up in 1921. Before we ate them all at pignata and we were 127 people, but who lived in four houses. He had tenants of the Baron honest country.

A house was Rovarè of San Biagio, town Ca 'Lion , Callalta another along the way, another long the calle Fatutto locations and one in the town of Breda. [...]

We paid rent to the Baron Onesti kinds of country ... [explains the type of agricultural management and production company] .

1986/25 Tape - Side B

[...]

In 1917 I lived in Rovarè along the area known in Callalta Fatutto. From Treviso to go to Ponte di Piave on the left. The land was crossed by the railroad, the house was beyond the railway and was Callalta border with our country.

Three days before de San Martin ... now had twenty days they had closed the schools because there was the troop that passed on Callalta and had to do three miles of road to go to school, you had to walk along the Callalta up near the police of San Biagio ...

When the defeat came I was a kid. I saw all these soldiers and wondered: "Where they go, pores fioi ?

All those soldiers who walked, and we had kids excited.

There were those who went to the park bulls seize the beasts, and also came to our house. Were mounted on horseback cows and oxen were walking along the Ponte di Piave Callalta coming from and going to Treviso. For three days.

After - all of a sudden - blocked. Reverse.

Why, I had explained to the officers, [first] Cadorna was going to do the line of the barrier on the Po, but that came after they made on the Piave. And we would have been even five hundred meters from the Piave.

As they began to go back, came in for our house in the countryside, which was also large as well as long.

One evening he came into a platoon of police and told my grandfather, "Grandpa, where are you the haystack? "My grandfather mentioned it to him:" You there, "because my father was a soldier too.

We had a kitchen as long as the whole house and the police have put the straw along the walls of the kitchen, on the one hand and on the other in the middle of the table, and have not even bothered. They stood there talking, so, with a glass of wine on the table, but those who held a Boccalone ten liters, when he came in a captain bold.

They did not ask permission. He came in, introduced himself there, he looked around, "Grandpa, those who prepared this straw here? "And my grandfather:" Poor fioi, must sleep ... '. The captain is down, took the dagger he had on boots, and he planted on the table: "You go and find another place," he said, "because this is for me," And even if they were policemen, they had leave.

After less than a quarter of an hour came the bold, who took over from the police.

The captain entered last, and says to his grandfather: "Here there is no wine, where you have your cake?" And the grandfather "Come in question Fiol, come from here " . He was trembling with fear because of this, an antiquated ... and brought the captain where, under a ladder, there was a barrel of five hectoliters, so a big barrel.

Sotto, who knows el spinel [spigot], the barrels ... My grandfather took el bocal [pitcher] and went to tap wine, and the captain back. When he saw this spinel, before you fill el bocal the captain pulls out his gun. Three or four gunshots ... and he was Italian. [Drilled the barrel].

the morning as they left early. For their part, and I do not know where they have sent ... about nine and a half to ten are within three officers. I do not remember that they can, and I happily, "Look, I said, there are soldiers still here."

They told me: "Bocia, where is your father?"

"My father is military," I replied.

"Who you home?"

"My grandfather

"Go call your grandfather!"

was in the barn. I went, "Grandpa, it turns out that there are soldiers who want to talk with you." - "Who am I?" - "I do not know, are mounted on horseback"

And my grandfather comes out.

"Grandpa - he said - that there porch, you must free. Bring out the tanks ... "

There were wagons, versors [plow], rakes, everything.

"Why, fiol?" ha detto mio nonno.

«Perché ci occorre a noi» – «Si ma io... » – «Beh, fai quello che puoi»

Dopo un'ora, un'ora e mezzo, è entrato uno squadrone di cavalleria e hanno tirato fuori tine , tinassi , tutti quanti gli attrezzi che si adoperavano per l'agricoltura. Hanno tirato due corde metalliche da una parte all'altra ma per [legare] i cavalli non erano ancora sufficienti, allora hanno piantato una corda nel cortile, distante quattro metri da casa.

Then I went on the floor, the floor was full of corn, and made the palota [shovel] Wood - who once had that palota of wood affixed to mix the cob - and throw out corn for the balcony, to feed the horses.

These soldiers have said his grandfather not to leave, because "two or three days the Germans go by and you stay here." It must have been 7 or 8 November.

Instead, the 11, the day of San Martin, when it was three and a half to four entered a platoon of policemen, with rifles and bayonets, "Away from here, away from here, away, away because there is the last [...] train from Spercenigo. "

My mother asked," But where are you taking us? "He was cooking the goose for the feast of St. Martin and he had to leave there all the pot, poultry ... beasts, filled the barn.

led us to Spercenigo and we boarded the train.

We asked: "Where are you taking us?" - "Oh, they told, just beyond Treviso, Padua before. 'And we ran three nights and three days. They took us to Naples!

was a troop who had three steam engines and must have been too long. Because he had taken on people from all sides, including those of Friuli, not just ours. After you have attached the other translated to other machines.

A car was left without coal when Ferrara was down there for those campaigns, which are those vineyards with the poles. They stopped and went to raise the stakes for the vines to fire on the car of the train.

I told her it would take una giornata a raccontare tutto!

A Napoli, quando siamo arrivati ci hanno messo sulle case dell'Ospizio Marino. [...]

Siamo arrivati come questa sera verso le sette e domani mattina ci hanno messo a dormire su un salone. Si era cinque figli, e mia madre fa sei.

Alla mattina passava il dottore a fare la visita e ha trovato un fratello mio, quattro anni più giovane, che aveva tutti gli occhi rossi e ha detto: «Questo bisogna portarlo sull'ospedale». Mentre lo portavano via, mia madre si è messa a piangere. Il dottore le ha detto: «Signora, mettiamo un cartello sulla porta, che lei non is disturbed. As long as his son does not heal, she does not move from here. "

Then they started coming of the Lords to bring candy and this and that, for these refugees who arrived, and even things to wear. On the third day we were there, now was flattered when he saw this group of gentlemen ran to get something.

One afternoon, about three o'clock, a man as big as my son, well, a little bigger, to me: 'Come here, Bocia, come here. "

I got closer, I thought it would give me something, instead I asked, "Where is the Dad?

'and military'

"Your mother, where is it?"

"It's in room, room '

" How many of you "

" We are five '

"Vammi to call your mother," and I go.

"sea, come fora that ghe xe a co Sior that you speak vol."

My mother is coming out, con le lacrime agli occhi, e lui:

«Signora, guardi, se lei accetta ... io - ormai ne ho trovati degli altri qua - mi occorre [ho posto per] ancora un poca di gente.»

Questo sior era il principe Colonna di Napoli.

A Posillipo c'è l' Ospizio Marino , e loro l'avevano vuoto. Il principe ha detto: «Se lei mi dice [di sì], prepari quel po' di robe che ha e io vengo qui col tram» – che là c'erano i tram che circolavano – «e vi porto there. "

My mother said yes, and we were there.

[in our family] we were alone and the mother, because all the others were scattered. We have not gathered that when, in '19, we came home after the war.

At home we have found three cabins.

Our house was gone, but that of that of Faon Calion and had remained standing, but was left standing only the skeleton of the houses . Except that of Calion - that the stable was made with slab of cement - the military, or to fire, or to make shelters and refuges have pulled out all the floors, balconies, doors. It was all gone.

And the campaign? You could not even leave until the raid was over. They did the raid before dismissing the German prisoners. But three months we have been under surveillance by the guards of the military would not let us go out into the countryside, because if you went out of ammunition were everywhere.

I ran away several times, I saw a little 'ground move, I found a "Miss". He knows they were the girls, once? They were a piece of wood so long, with a bussolotto come quelli della birra. Nella punta avevano l'elica.

Avevo visto gli altri soldati come facevano ... l'elica aveva un cerchietto [na sc'ionèa] . Bisognava tirarlo via e svitarlo.Quando la si lanciava con il manico e [la signorina] cadeva, l'elica aveva un percussore che andava a battere la capsula e scoppiava.

Così, quando io ne ho trovata una, ho fatto anch'io come avevo visto fare gli altri, perché quando si è boce si imparano le malagrazie alle svelte. Ho preso di quelle pedate sul culo, quando hanno sentito questa schioppettata!

[The girls] were like grenades, but other than Sipe.

We got home after the war, in September 1919. It had been almost a year after the war. There were still German prisoners and the land was not reclaimed.

We had to [wait] because in the spring after the winter we never could do anything. Even sow. Because the screws and mulberry trees, for the most part, they were all mowed down at this height here, because the fighting had come beyond the Piave and we had five hundred yards from the bank.

We began to sow in '20, in the spring of 1920. [...]

In 1921 he was still on the barracks. A Faon had three cabins and the other strains of the family had two each. Others were placed in Teze, if there were.

After co-operatives have done and now the floors have begun to put in place the houses were left standing. [Because] one was completely destroyed: that was also the closest to the line of fire and was on the village called San Bartolo.

Then came that we are divided because there was no room for all, and we parted in 1921.

My poor father with my older brother took a year off in the swamp of the Seven Sisters in San Stino, between the railway and Triestina.

there the first year has been even worse failure. Next came that Mussolini made the reclamation, which pulled to drain the swamp of the Seven Sisters, and we took malaria.

us who came from places that there was no malaria, we were the first to take it, because those who were born there were more resistant. [...]

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John Geronazzo Fasol said, funeral di Valdobbiadene (TV)

Born April 28, 1911, residing in funeral.

interview are present (and involved) Vanzin his wife Josephine, born in 1915 in San Vito di Valdobbiadene Geronazzo and his cousin Catherine, born on May 6, 1907 funeral.

Tape 1994/31 - Side B        23 agosto 1994

Giovanni . Siamo stati costretti ad andare in Carnia a Interneppo, vicino al lago di Cavazzo, sotto il monte Festa.

Qua, proprio davanti alla porta di casa nostra a un certo punto è arrivata una granata. Erano i nostri italiani che dal Monfenera tiravano di qua.

Nel borgo di Funer è arrivata una bomba incendiaria giusto su una casa che aveva anche il fienile, che si è incendiato, [ce l'ho ancora] right before my eyes. And here, on our area there were artillery batteries [Austro-Hungarian]: 7:00 to 8:00 pulling pieces from there.

Wife. refugees We went with our parish priest Fr John Tura. We climbed all the mountains [...] he sees there, we went out "in the Fountain" and we were in Pordenone. The memory I have is that they went "to love" to the doors, with flour. They took me in his arms, because I had two years.

And behind the priest throughout the country, indeed all those who wanted to leave, because many are also remained here.

On our house we had the German command and Grappa fired directly over the village and our home, near schools in San Vito, the big house that's on the road. It was just fired from Grappa, not from Monfenera. In addition to the command was also the Red Cross.

From Grappa with the telescope we could see every step we did, it seems a bit 'in Sarajevo as you see on television, although it is not that we We just did it a massacre.

Now I live in via Col de Roer [along the road that starts at the winery Mionetto].

Nearby is the shrine of Our Lady of Caravaggio, with parties on May 26 and September 8.

Geronazzo The house is great, there was once a dairy. It is an important patriarchal farm household.

Cousin . We have brought in Friuli Alessio, Lake Cavazzo. It was a country in the mountains, no campaign. It was hard to find food, we had to come down to Udine "in love".

I left [for refugees] are with John and we were divided when you get to Gemona. There siamo decisi a partire dopo che è arrivata una granata che ha fatto quattro morti e cinque feriti. Perché le varie famigliole che stavano su per le rive sono venute tutte qua, perché gli sembrava di essere più sicure. Avevamo tutto il portico della casa pieno [di gente]. Si aveva messo un poco di fieno e si dormiva là mentre gli italiani già tiravano, finché un bel giorno è arrivata la granata, proprio qua.

Ci sono stati dei morti, e quelli sono restati qui; noi siamo andati profughi.

Le famiglie che erano venute a rifugiarsi da noi erano quelle di Franco Mattiazzo [...]. La nostra casa era, sembrava, un po' più fuori shot.

After the grenade the Germans have brought up the streets in the big house of Piva and from there on we have moved into villages in Friuli. With the truck took us first to St. Mary's Lake where they stayed for 15 days, the parties to Follina well Follina. After they took us on Furlan and there have been a year Rabioso .

There were twenty in our family before the war, and we stayed in thirteen of twenty. Two or three died here two to three deaths there; un pochi con la guerra, un pochi sotto la bomba.

Da profughi c'era tanta fame. Dei nostri nessuno è morto di fame, ma una famiglia che era là vicino ha avuto qualcuno che è morto per fame. Era la famiglia Reboli.

Gli abitanti del posto non "potevano vedere" i profughi, perché andavano a carità e loro non ne avevano che per loro. Perché erano paesetti di montagna, nascosti su di là. Allora i profughi più grandi, le donne più anziane - io ero bambina - venivano giù per Udine a carità e qualcosa portavano a casa.

Giovanni . Charles's grandfather was still alive Geronazzo, who was about 80 years.

On our soil, the Germans had set up seven shots of artillery.

When I had returned from refugee just want to go and see where they had placed the Germans. There were still piles of unused ammunition, four or five stacks, after he came to clean up the Genius.

Before we leave, the Germans made us go over the Col de Roer, a mound, who is here behind. Besides us there were Agostinetto Geronazzo, the Franks and Vettoretti. By now it was not known that most holy name.

They were all sent away and we were one of the few still left here.

I had three brothers in the army, including a volunteer. Floriano were - in the artillery - Luigi and Carlo, the volunteer. One was on Salaroli , was part of the front of Grappa. All three have returned.

the evening before being transferred came from a bombing Grappa, and has targeted just the Col de Roer. There they were placed in a cellar, and about 15 people were accommodated in other buildings around.

A bomb arrived 4:00 to 5:00 meters ahead of us on the patio, which was bare ground, and went under instead of bursting, making all cracks in the ground.

1994/32 Tape - Side A

summary. From our house, where we live even now, we have been forced by the Germans to move on Col de Roer , and there we were bombed.

My grandfather did not want to go away at all costs.

bombing was the day of the week. Initially, the bombs did not hit us, then came the bomb failed to explode and then they adjusted the shot and I heard [and from] coming. I said "take me now", instead it went a few meters ahead to strike just the cellar where he had amassed most of the people. It went down to the cellar, seven died on the spot and several wounded.

Then the Germans took us all away with the carts. Even me and my mom we got. Together with me were two other younger brothers to me, my two sisters (Justine & Returns) [...] in all including my dad and my mom eravamo in nove.

Quando eravamo verso Follina, era un tempo incerto e a un certo punto è iniziato a nevicare. Abbiamo fatto la strada in queste condizioni senza niente, perché nella fretta non avevamo potuto prenderci su niente. 

Eravamo come quei poveri disgraziati che sono profughi là nella Jugoslavia, un fac-simile, c'è poca differenza.

Poi siamo stati portati a Gemona e da là mandati nei vari paesi. Noi a Internèppo, un paese di montagna, circondato da tre montagne grandi, con scogli di roccia e alla base c'era il lago di Cavazzo. Poco lontano, sulla punta di questo Lake was a country called Sampiago [Somplago].

First time my grandfather ... Thanks to him we were able to overcome the crisis of war, and why are there not there anymore. My grandfather was able to take something away with money and the money has helped the whole family, is that our cousins. In this way we managed to overcome the crisis.

Carraro Mother Teresa was the center, one that most busied himself to bring out the hunger. In front of her and other young people with her, was heading for countries in search of something to eat, "In love". A bit 'of milk, a bit' of flour, with the bag, with dàlmede [shoes, wooden clogs] feet. And sometimes I tried to go with my mom.

Not that the locals were bad, but they had little or nothing about them too.

When we started from Valdobbiadene, the first stage after Follina was Victor.

My mom was able to pull up a little wood and tried to make a "foghetto" for the polenta, but he had not even calièra [cauldron]. He asked the residents of the area and have provided a great caliera iron. We also found begging in the flour and water ... and better than we were already anticipating the polenta comes a German tank that made us turn off the heat and we threw it all away. Think of us as we were, with the hunger we had.

The journey from Col de Roer Gemona, with the Germans, lasted for days, in these conditions.

A Interneppo has affected the local priest to take refuge in the various groups and we are placed in a small house behind also had a bit 'of garden.

I got away with thanks to my grandfather, who had taken something away. To my knowledge, none of the villagers died, as a refugee.

And when I see on television Yugoslavia and that other war that is there, in Rwanda, and show these poor people who move because there is war, and sees them with something on his back, here, a facsimile was us.

then when we got home, everything was upside down. Fortunately, our house was a bit 'hidden throws del Grappa, but not so those on the Col de Roer. We found several holes we, too, but not as many on the Col De Roer.

Our house was struck, however, in particular, a big bomb. In addition, beams and balconies were gone, but overall the walls were still standing, one of the few.

Come back my dad and my uncle have worked to restore the house. In our area there were admissions of the Germans in these shelters and there were many beams which were used to repair a bit 'houses at a time.

In particular behind our house was a shelter great more than others, a real tunnel under the hill. But there were other tunnels along the road that goes down to the countryside to escape from the artillery. It was 20-30 meters long hospitalizations in the hill a bit older and our 'time to have them removed, taking the beams and timber. But beyond a certain point they went and left everything there, you shut yourself inside.

Our family was large, had a brandy distillery. After the war he started again, but it was short, only two or three years, buying back the equipment.

But once more, before della guerra, sotto il bisnonno c'era anche la latteria che poi è stata chiusa. Mio nonno poi teneva le vacche in montagna d'estate, sulla Barberia, Colteron e Tendanela [?], Mariech (che adesso l'ha presa l'Ispettorato). Eravamo sempre proprietari.

Da profughi, ce la siamo cavati per merito di mio nonno che aveva dei soldi e di mia madre che ha buttato via ogni riguardo ed è andata a carità.

[...]

L'unico acquedotto che funzionava dopo la guerra era in piazza a Valdobbiadene dove c'è la banca. Là c'era l'unica fontana che ancora funzionava e tutti si andava là con le carriole, con qualsiasi mezzo, una processione a prendersi l'acqua.

Sul Col De Roer hanno fatto una tabula rasa, una specie di Montecassino.

Nastro 1994/34 - Lato A

Aggiunte e precisazioni, 15 settembre 1994

Sono sposato con Giuseppina Vanzin dal 1946. Ho avuto due figli, un maschio e una femmina.

Sono figlio di Giuseppe Geronazzo e Teresa Carraro.

The fact Revine . When our group of refugees was already anticipating the polenta ... does not even seem real, at the climax comes two German soldiers who have thrown everything on the ground, without eating it. We were to kill (to say).

A Interneppo trouble with my grandfather helped everyone, because by the grace of God had taken away the savings he had, and that was our salvation.

Interneppo Among the residents there were those who did and compassion for what they could, helping out. But poricani , had too little and what little they had when they held. Fortunately we had the grandfather was little 'as in the last war, who had no money he could find the stuff on the black market.

Then it was my mother who had more courage to face the situation. It started in the morning to go to charity with a little bag with shoulder strap, with her children.

We were nine children. Three were at war, refugees were three males and three females, one of which died shortly after the war.

A Gemona was the command of the Germans and there, not far away, had found my own accommodation aunt, Gigia: two rooms for her and her daughter. Me and two brothers when we went beyond going to charity and this Gigetta aunt, a cousin of my grandmother, he had compassion on seeing us. He told us to go in there and prepared, coated with the boxcutter, two slices of bread with apple jam jar that had a tin. There seemed to have had lunch.

My aunt had a beautiful young daughter, perhaps I do not know whether she could have the jam by the Germans.

A Interneppo there was a church and the pastor was once a Sunday to put some time and my grandfather brought flour, milk and bread.

Interneppo was the face of the mountain festival.

was a mountain forest, but also many rocky points and rock was a cave. Each time the Germans were doing the searches, with their wheezing [whistles?] ... of patrols, especially in recent times before the arrival of the Italians, but they never managed to find the cave.

I told my mom that there were many deserters in the cave and Italian women of the place at midnight brought him to eat. The Germans were also on patrol in our rooms, but never found them.

[...]

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Gemionite Margaret (Rita Bertolini), on the Piave TV Maserada

Born December 20, 1903

Tape 1994 / 4 - Side A Saturday, April 23, 1994

my last name stems from the fact that my dad was un orfanello preso in ospedale. [...] Era nato nel 1871 e si chiamava Riccardo, detto Carlo. Era stato preso all'ospedale di Treviso, ma si diceva che fosse stato originario dalla provincia di Udine. Era stato preso subito, tanto che diceva sempre di non aver mangiato un centesimo dell'ospedale di Treviso, perché i nonni l'avevano portato a casa fin dal primo giorno, appena nato.

Mai saputo chi fossero i suoi veri genitori, e neppure voleva saperlo, tanto che a volte io gli chiedevo: «Se vien fora to mama, vatu trovarla?»

Lui rispondeva: "No, my mama to me that this is the lever."

My dad was very good and he died in 1918. He had gone during the war - eventually - with a lieutenant who taught him to put down the catwalk on the Piave. He took a fulminant peritonitis and died 24 hours even in the military hospital of Carbonera.

Our house was just beyond the first bank there and my dad had built a shelter nearby. [...]. It was on a slight hill, and then, even when the Piave was rising, the water never arrived there. [...] When the Piave River overflowed, breaking further up the side of the "local" up on the monuments of British Salettuol. It was a serious point of where the Piave was divided: one branch went to San Polo and San Michele and one going down Maserada. My father had built the shelter for the family because they told us there on the Piave was a "step".

Having seen what was our bank, after Kobarid, the first, which they call the bank of San Marco!

In this hospital we stayed three nights, all huddled under. Three nights after the arrival of the Germans across the Piave, until they came to send off the police.

Me pore pupa me even par de védarlo in janòcio, Cusina in front of the police. El ga ito "copéme here, the co fioi me, but I was away from here no vao" . [My poor dad I can still see him on his knees in the kitchen in front of the police. She said kill me here, with my children, but I do not go away from here].

The sergeant told him: "Just you go down the bank, in the first house, because here is a passage: the intention of the Germans is to go direct to the Po."

My poor dad says: «Cossa femo?» e mia mamma: «Carlo, ndémo de à de l'argine.»

Siamo andati verso la prima casa, dove c'è la Madonna delle Vittorie, dove fanno le sagre. Da là ci siamo uniti in tre famiglie e siamo andati sulla Postioma, sulla campagna del nonno di Cenedese, quello che ha le officine.

Eravamo in trenta. Noi bambine dormivamo assieme alla mamma nella stalla, con tre bestie e una mussa. A mia sorella che poi è diventata suora ed ora è morta my other sister and the owner of the house has a room for the son was a soldier.

the evening there was the offensive My mother said "Tose I come up with Stalevo» because the room was to the front, and came down to sleep. My sister sister has stayed on the crib and the other has stayed where it was made to convey the urine of animals, so that it found back in the morning with all the wet. And the two poor old sleeping with his head so, the extent to which the animals had to sit down.

the morning, that master of the house there - must be in hell, I keep telling myself when I think about it - at five o'clock in winter, was in stable to govern the beasts and we had ingrumàr all the straw in a corner, wake up and sit because he was to govern the beasts.

My mother said to him: "But Gigio, Pode do no more an hour late?"

I had a sister three years, then emigrated to Cuneo saying, "Mama, no to a macara mi, a mi no to Macario " . He did not want the masks - because they had distributed the masks [Gas] - but you always kept a crucifix in his hand "Mama, I have Jesus, I have Jesus."

In the house on Postioma to Varago, Luigi Cenedese (Gigio Piovesanèl) we were from Caporetto until Holy Week of 1919, together with the families Carraro and Rossetto, the three families who were near the embankment. [...]

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three of us girls (me and two older sisters) we left for Tuscany Epiphany. Lancenigo The mill had been closed because the director had been called military, and the boss - Sigismund Piva from Valdobbiadene - she had another in Tuscany.

My mom, who had remained in a stable Piovesanel , lived "with the existence of the soldiers." Since in a nearby house was a slaughter of animals for the military to my mom was always out of something: the tripe, bones, pieces of leg from the knee down, and some more bread. My [...] mother's name was Maria Lucchese, she was born in 1871 and died in 1947.

[...]

Tape 1994 / 4 - Side B

The hospital that my father had done before leaving Beyond the house of the bank was covered by Talponia [ Talponia = local variety of white poplar - Populus alba ] were used as cover for admission. And just over Talponia fell two grenades.

The shelter has not been destroyed, so that the return - the war is over - we still find the stuff that my father had hidden in there in a basket: Murano glass that his father had been using a godfather who worked in glass.

them I still have these glasses, so that a relative of mine told me that if Murano Murano to know that I still have the glasses of the war of '18 'you the copa " , because the factories have to close down [if anyone breaks their glasses and change them]. [...]

My father was determined to make the shelter near the house now because he had seen soldài around par and the campaigns , with a backpack and the tin.

A side of the house had cement blocks and iron girders supporting networks. From block to block soldiers engaged all cookware, and my mom was put into it to eat in each one.

were all disbanded.

I with my younger sister - who had three years - when I go up to the bank and see how the ants. They were all these soldiers lying on the side of the sun and hear you calling, "Margaret Rissotto (because once I was all curly hair), Rissotto! "

I look and I see one I know," Marshall! "

He said," Go to your dad and dì a tua mamma che sono qua, e che mi faccia da mangiare».

Era un maresciallo originario di Caltanissetta, che veniva tutte le domeniche con la banda militare a suonare in piazza a Maserada, perché c'era il palco della musica in piazza e venivano ogni domenica a tenere allegro il paese. Mio papà aveva fatto amicizia con lui, che quando aveva finito di suonare veniva a cena da noi, magari a mangiare radicchi e un uovo, quel che trovava, per stare in compagnia.

Si chiamava Garofano Coppola e ho ancora la sua forbice per ricordo, una piccola forbice. Era maresciallo del 55 Fanteria - o al distretto, non so - a Treviso.

I went home and I said "Mom ghe some passionate Pink, Pink Mother ghe sull'àrden some passionate." [Pink is on the bank]. We kept it hidden for three days under the straw, did not want to go to the front. Then he left on foot to have shot down the street, of course. This will be considered a deserter.

We have hidden three days to see if it calmed the situation, if this ended up "passing" as we had told the police sergeant. Pink was also unarmed, while the others were all soldiers with a weapon addosso. Era un bell'uomo, ancora giovane. Quante volte, quando prendo la forbice in mano, ancora adesso mi chiedo: che fine avrà fatto?

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Una mattina siamo nella chiesetta della Madonna delle Vittorie - è un santuario - e andiamo dentro per assistere alla messa. In quello inizia un'offensiva sul Piave. Noi avevamo un carretto: eravamo io, mia sorella più vecchia che è ancora viva e quella che sarebbe andata suora. Si andava nell'Istituto per mettere in salvo qualcosa dei quadri delle suore. In quello che entriamo in questa cappella che era aperta, vediamo una tenda in mezzo alla chiesa e degli scarponi fuori e un prete ufficiale, un chaplain, who said mass.

I stayed outside to guard the cart and I was leaning against a pillar in the [...] and a grenade went right over and I have found it long and straight. I went to church and I said "enough, enough, enough!". How much fear. And my sister said, "Given the time I left out."

Where is the bomb fall now have built a supermarket.

They found the water, how deep the grenade had gone. Had seen how much land has raised! And they all said it was a miracle, because if he hit the church ...

But the church has fallen only a sdrapnel. He made a hole in the ceiling and broke. There's still a niche that keeps the pieces. The rest of the church remained intact throughout the course of the war. But even if the parish church of Maserada escaped with little damage, unlike almost all the houses that have been destroyed.

At that time it was said: "A Maserada the Madonna was a refugee." In the sense that to avoid damage to the statue of the Madonna had been taken away at Salzano.

had seen the feast for the return of the statue in his church, the second Sunday in July 1919. First came the church of Varago, drawn by four white horses of the artillery, covered by drapes. All the people in a procession from Varago Maserada; have moved for the occasion all countries in the area, lots of people.

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Tape 1994 / 5 - Side A

My father returned to his home, from Varago, every day. Why he went to see ...

To get to our house there was a real and guarded its front, there were machine gun in our house. There were two machine guns that looked at the mouths of the Piave, one of them was in the "house of chimneys" (hearth).

In the stable but had prepared a concrete station than light cannon which was also used against aircraft ... and that they had to undermine it, and so air is blown to the roof of the barn.

Our house was not affected, but only damaged. It was a stone house, very old. Now it's been changed, but is still in existence and of the bank is located just down the road that goes toward the Piave San Polo, on the right just a few meters ahead, you can see from the bank. It's a little 'ambush and a child of the new owner will also build another new house.

It is located far enough from the water of the river Piave, so that we never had water from the Piave in the house, because there was - in front - a "Basson,''a pocket where bagged water. And sometimes to go to work in spinning my sister, who had to go there, get up out of bed and took us out of the water waves on high, dry conditions of the bank.

The trenches were all around the house, but the opposite was true later.

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The bulk of the Germans did not have time to come in here because the Lord blessed Italy, at that time. Why did this turn from our side all the water of the second Piave. It was a miracle.

happened that until 1918 before the Piave Maserada was divided into two "Ramona". At the height of the "Municipal", the two parted Piave. A Piave was to San Micieli and one was in Maserada, and ours was always the greatest. With the retreat, the Piave on the other side he turned and the Germans here found themselves with their feet dry, but it has reached our Piave found the great mass of water, so that the waves carried off the catwalk and had to stop.

The cavalry, horses, went down to hell. That was in June, the latest offensive, and before it had never happened. They all said: 'It was Madonna who made the miracle. "Because the two Piave, who were from the world, our old they had ever seen. The old could not believe their eyes and said, "I must be a miracle."

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My dad one time we brought with us escaped to bunèa [la carriola senza sponde che si usa in stalla] su per l'argine. Ci siamo portati via solo le coperte e le lenzuola che erano sui letti. Poi mio papà è ritornato indietro e ha visto che i soldati erano già dentro la casa, con le mastelle di tela piene di vino.

Prima di essere costretti ad andarcene da casa abbiamo dormito per tre notti sotto il ricovero in cui era stata distesa un po' di paglia. Si dormiva su degli scabelli, raggomitolati, con le spalle appoggiate alla terra. Si dormiva seduti, appoggiati l'uno all'altro.

Sopra al ricovero, come copertura c'erano dapprima delle tavole e dopo dei travi di Talponia ; last in the earth clods. Down there, in the house, we found a place father, mother and ten children.

three nights we stayed there until it's marshal.

was an afternoon about three o'clock and I remember I warned my dad. "Popa ghe a marescial some passionate."

He came into the kitchen and said, "You are the master?"

"Yes"

"Get away, because it is a step, but it is dangerous enough that you go from there, down of the bank. "

Beyond of the bank had had time to bury the stuff. They had dug a hole under the floor of the kitchen and I had put in the bins. So did Joseph Carraro and Eugenio Rossetto, who lived across the bank, near the Oratory of Our Lady.

As soon as the sergeant told us to leave we left, leaving all but the blankets and sheets. We left the chickens, everything. Even those two three sausage preserved under the ashes put in a box under the stairs. (First you wrap with newspaper and then put in boxes, covering them with ashes. A row of sausages, a coat of ash. Thus keeping their fat.)

Those sausages we were able to save them later, when my dad came back for the second time. That year we had the pork, we had a good product with the pork last year that weighed over two tons. [...]

Once we walked down from the bank on foot towards Varago, and the "road Postioma. Only the Rossetto family has brought with her two animals which were then fed - you can say - with the bread of the soldiers, because vicino alla nostra casa c'era la sussistenza che quando aveva del pane vecchio avanzato lo dava a mia mamma per le bestie.

Siamo arrivati "sulla Postioma" [la romana via Postumia] da Cenedese, che era il nonno di quello che ora ha l'officina. Questo Luigi Cenedese aveva un figlio al fronte, tre figlie e un altro figlio che non aveva voglia di fare niente e si chiamava G.

Fra i profughi, gli uomini dormivano sulla tièda [fienile – deposito di fieno sopra la stalla] e le donne and girls slept in the barn, with Gigi at 5 am that winter was coming to feed the animals, and we had to collect and put the straw in a corner where we stayed. And my mother, sleep a bit to let 'the younger children, there would lie above, so as to cover it.

The old man brought out the manure, with the doors wide open, and we there in the corner ingrumài . It's the truth ... and yes he had nothing else to do.

When there was "scuffle in the air" we went under a haystack and you could hear all the balls that fell on the straw tec-tec-tec-tec, balls of lead.

Before leaving home we were not able to take a cioce [hen], a hen that was brewing 18 pitusséti [chicks]. And my mom always said "I Bastari ciaparme who that is, the."

My dad, who came home every day, said: "You know Marieta che i soldati hanno una gran cura della ciòca .» Ogni sera la cioca si preparava davanti alla porta della stalla, pronta ad entrare. I soldati la facevano entrare e l'avevano abituata ad andare dentro un cesto, lei e i pulcini; poi prendevano il cesto e con una fune lo alzavano verso il soffitto. In questa maniera allevarono 18 pulcini di un kilo e mezzo di peso e alla fine, per fortuna, siamo riusciti a mangiarli noi, perché mio papà è andato a prenderseli.

[Finita la guerra], quando we returned home we found a dresser drawer that had been adapted to season the pasta and my mom had to work hard to remove the fat!

The house was still standing [...] just that we had to change all the floors because it ruined by the continuous passage of the soldiers, who used the house as a lookout.

too close to the house on "Postioma" there was a signal post, [in places] Saltori, on two tall poplars. From there communicated with the existence and also felt that there was a duel in the air ... However, we realize it when the first shots came from our tower [of Maserada], because it was aluminum and the bit at night thinking. All the houses around there were damaged, the fault of the bell, so our soldiers have undermined, in agreement with the pastor at the level of the belfry. They blew up after dropping the bell because the bell was species with the moon, was used as a reference point. So much so that the pastor of Lovadina always said: 'When I come home at night I shave in the mirror of the bell tower of Maserada. "The bell was made, as now, only that [the peak] was polished aluminum.

We felt the soldiers on guard on poplars informed "you received a dispatch [?]". Even in the mill once, when there was the telephone, to communicate between the first and third floor is used a trumpet tied to a wire, a trumpet made of copper.

We will be away from the soldiers were on guard [the trees] a 500 meters.

One morning I wanted to go home too, along with my dad. Before reaching the embankment there was a field that had a "riveting" that marked the border. There I started to feel the "Barney in the air" and then I jumped headfirst into the riveting, as she had shouted to my dad: "Butate soto, soto butate. When they finished shooting - you could hear the balls falling all around - we went to our house to see the cioce .

Varago From our house to have been four kilometers, all on foot.

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I am playing from Varago Epiphany of 1918 in Tuscany, near Arezzo Casentino Rassina where there was another mill of Mr. Piva.

The closest villages were Bibbiena and Ponte a Poppi. There I had a hard life. What if I think it reunites ga magna gato no lo magnaria [what we ate, I think the cat will not eat it], because the refugees was not used rice, but the laughed [rice waste], who had more Bissi [worms] and rice. Were Bissi small brown with the fins, and remained in that area in the soup prepared for us: no meat broth, but mixed with lard oil. In truth the oil was good.

I Bissi biggest remained on the bottom and then I went out for lunch with my plate. Outside the door there was a tub for dogs of director, I held up the spoon with the rice and drained down the broth with small worms and the bigger ones but I pulled them out with a spoon.

meat ever seen, gave me some fish which was a kind of mackerel [...]. It was a fish Bauco as el Squal [Chub, Leuciscus cephalus ], a red stuff, and what was once a twice a week. Or we buy fruit. The cheese was bad, it had a smell and you could not eat.
fruits there were in abundance.

After the soup is flavored with the occasional head of cabbage.
nun My sister was not able to eat the soup from the crap that was - I would not even think about it, how many Bissi we ate, "but they were dead, really - my sister ... just off the runway by spinning up all'ortolano who was there and came back with the next head of cabbage. That was her eat lunch, with bread without salt, and good olive oil.
He cut two slices of this bread from big loaves, there is sprayed a bit 'of salt, were anointed with the 'oil and then we ate.
And so the girls ate in Tuscany.

At the end of the season he found himself in the place where the working girls of the place so much salt that they brought from home with the cap,. Then [the girls Rassina] also ate the ' articiòco [artichoke] raw tociàndolo on salt as a snack, or leeks, even raw always dip it into salt. The cap, place them in boxes where the suction turned on to silk. Put them up there with salt cap, which sometimes melted, the heat and had to be careful that does not penetrate into the silk, which otherwise would be stained and ruined.
They also ate at work while we Veneto we left half an hour, as we had the dorm.

Quelle the country in half an hour for lunch did not go home, but they were inside in spinning and there tociàvano what had taken away from home.

Think Rassina screws that line the streets and were quite low so that you could easily take the grapes. Instead of the plane were all mulberry trees along the roads of the municipality. The local women (who had held a thimble of silkworm eggs) were born and bugs in the morning, before it was spinning in, gave him enough to eat that much leaf until noon when they returned home to give them again to eat. So could be a little 'cocoons of all for them.

There was no means of transport. We did our job and then nine hours in the evening it was a bit 'of recreation, they worked in iron and those who crochet, you did something for us.

I also found a friend, a good toséta [girl] who invited me. This toséta was still too small to enter the mill and so had to stay out of the door for a month and expect to achieve years. He was there with two of her sisters Lancenigo.

Nervesa There was also a girl, there were also from Cison and Alano di Piave. Families had been under the Germans and they could no longer return home. They were already spinning when it happened in the retreat. So we found the company of other Venetian, if only to speak the same language. Why such a girl Vasconcelos could not say a word it was an Italian.

The girls were also the place so dirty: they had lice at will. Pineta Maso (quella da Vascon) diceva loro che erano "brute passe [luride] e sporche" e loro ridevano perché non capivano la lingua. Io dicevo alla Pineta "devi dirle che sono maiale e sudiciose", allora sì che avrebbero capito. Così si facevano anche quattro risate. 
Erano sporche, e per spidocchiarsi si tiravano giù i pidocchi dalla testa una con l'altra mentre noi non avevamo i pidocchi. Si sapeva, noi, come "tenersi"! [come evitare di prendere i pidocchi].
Noi avevamo i nostri pettini combed and suited us well every morning. I just had the ambition to do it every morning, God help us if we had seen our director made his head ache.
There were [the market] combs fixed and once, in a shop, an assistant of [the mill] has bought a comb with teeth ravvicinatissimi.

A girl told her: "Teacher, I bet she has lice."

the assistant replied: "I hope not, you ensure that you have them there,"

"Well, I will have someone there too!"

But I've never taken them. Nun My sister had a passion to comb my hair! I had hair that my sisters were all envious.

[A Rassina] on the streets you could see so many blind from birth.

There campaner uncle, who was blind. I had become ten years ... and the streets There were so many dangers, many horses that went with the carts. The blind were farmers, but also not very accurate.

Those countries were poor, so poor. They were very poor, almost like a wedge. [...]