During the interrogations that followed, I preferred to admit my status of Italian of Jewish race. I felt that otherwise I would be unable to justified mt presence in places too secluded even for an evacuee; while I believed that the admission of my political activity would have meant torture and certain death. As a Jew, I was sent to Fossoli, near Modena, where a vast detention camp, originally meant for English and American prisoners-of-war, collected all numerous categories of people not approved of by the new-born Fascist Republic.