Partisan relays

The partisan relays were very young women, often little more than adolescents, who played a fundamental role in the resistance movement against fascism.

These girls of unparalleled courage traveled aboard unsuspected bicycles, camouflaging themselves among ordinary citizens and rendering a silent service that would benefit the entire nation.

Without their work of connection between the partisan formations engaged in the armed struggle and the board of directors, no orders, directives, or food, medicine or ammunition goods would have been transmitted.

The relays also provided to allow relations between the partisans and their families and often were even nurses, and kept in touch with doctors and pharmacists.

Without any cover, alone to face insidious checkpoints and unspeakable dangers, the partisan relays were the true soul of the war of liberation, an example of the enormous female skills employed in the best way, a memory that seems to have been ignobly lost in the oblivion of superficiality and arrogance.