Giovanna Quadreri, nom de guerre 'Libertà', partisan relay protagonist of the Resistance on the Emilian Apennines, died at 93 years old in Reggio Emilia.
Originally from Marola di Carpineti, in the autumn of 1944, at the age of 15, she went to look in the woods for her sister Laura, nickname 'Foresta', relay race of the green flames, to which she joined.
But it was with the 'Black Owls' of Glauco 'Gordon' Monducci that he wrote an important page of the Resistance against the Nazi-Fascists, narrated in several Italian and English books, songs, documentaries. Like a spy, 'Libertà' was among the relay crews who gathered the information to organize Operation Tombola, the Anglo-partisan attack of March 27, 1945, to the sound of a bagpipe, under German command of the Western Gothic Line. "I collected the necessary information. Then I wrote them in pencil on a cigarette paper that I would have put in my mouth if I had met Germans or Fascists. Then on foot from Reggio and Albinea to the headquarters in Bucket at the foot of the Cusna. Sixty kilometers up the road. day, "he said.
On the night of the assault she was sent on a patrol with the task of assisting the wounded. Together with Mercede 'Tundra' Zobbi managed to save the life of a paratrooper, the Irishman Frank Mulvey. Wounded at Villa Calvi, they hid him in the manure of a cattle wagon and then tied him to a donkey found along the way. In May 2012, after a book by the journalist Matteo Incerti and Valentina Ruozi, 'The sterling bracelet' and thanks to an interview on Youtube, Mulvey's four daughters and son hugged first virtually and then physically the women to whom they owed the life. "Freedom entered the Forest of Peace on the Day of Remembrance. A memory, made up of smiles and never of hatred, which has brought us and will always carry that gift which was also her nom de guerre",Uncertain remembers her on Facebook.
