The relay was the girl who, risking her life, maintained the links between the National Liberation Committee and the brigades, brought orders, information, weapons or medicines to the fighters who fought in the workshops, in the cities, in the valleys and in the mountains, in the regions of Italy. The relays risked being captured, raped and tortured on every trip and for this reason no one had to know their name nor did they have to know the names of the other partisans, so that they could not speak even under torture and guarantee the safety of all ": he speaks like this with an air that has not lost despite her age Luciana Romoli, born in Rome on 14 December 1930, of an anti-fascist family,
nom de guerre “Luce”, relay of the Garibaldi Brigade of the sixth area of Rome.
It was
the little girl of the Resistance
: at the age of eight she was expelled from all schools in the Kingdom for having rebelled against the racial laws that struck her Jewish classmate and for having organized a school revolt.
Never as on April 25, the anniversary of the Italian Liberation from the Nazi occupation and the fascist regime, his exciting, profound and timeless story in The Girls (Rai3), becomes current again. Luciana is a girl from the fifties. Very young, at the age of 13, the necessity of the struggle for freedom, even at the cost of her life, was evident and immediate; thus enters the Resistance, as a relay. Only at the end of the Second World War "Luce", Roman, born in 1930, was she able to complete her studies, becoming a biologist. Today this tenacious and courageous woman over ninety considers it her firm duty to remind the youngest of the values of the partisan struggle. And with unchanged energy he continues to fight for freedom but on the education front. His testimony is collected in the book "Noi,Partisans ”The Girls is a Rai3 program produced by Pesci Combattenti.
