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Paola Sibille, "Ombra" the messanger

Istituto storico della Resistenza e della società contemporanea in provincia di Cune

 Interviewed in 2012,Paola Sibille was born in 1926 at Beinette. She recalls her childhood as the daughter of a socialist railway worker, who was send to Tenda, then to Saluzzo as a punishment by the Fascist State. She also relates when and why he decided to become a partisan and took “Ombra” as his partisan name. She narrates some episodes of his militancy and the tasks that came with it. She talks about her feminism consciousness, reconstructing the feverish days after the Liberation  in Saluzzo. Finally she tells her difficult post-war life as a communist militant in Saluzzo, a christian-democratic city.  

Video table of contents

  1. Follwing her father from Tenda to Saluzzo
  2. September 8, 1943: the arrival of German soldiers in Saluzzo
  3. Becoming a partisan
  4. The first March 8
  5. The days of Liberation between hunger and fear
  6. The difficult post-war period of a communist militant in Saluzzo

Interview information

Geographic information

Country: IT

Region: Piemonte

City: Saluzzo

District: CN

Altitude: 340m s.l.m.

People

Paola Sibille

Year: 1926
City: Beinette (Cuneo)
Languages: Italiano

Document by: Fabio Bailo
Video by: Remo Schellino

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