<p>This article explores the invisible and intangible materialities of the Italian Resistance movement (1943–1945) during the Second World War. While traditional conflict archaeology and historiography often focus on macro-historical frameworks and visible physical remains, the clandestine nature of the Italian Resistance guerrilla-style struggle necessitated a strategy of transience, placelessness, and invisibility to ensure survival. Consequently, the surviving material culture from this period is scarce, as partisans were often forced, for their safety and that of the populations who sheltered them, to leave no trace of their presence. Drawing on sensory ethnography and oral-history interviews with veterans, this article proposes an “archaeology of things” that focuses on entities that have not physically survived or were meant to be ephemeral, but that continue to hold agency and emotional resonance today.</p>