European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

One day three partisans came (friends of the farmer and one relative)

and came in for a snack.

The farmer said: “You did not put up any guards.”

They answered: “We will be gone in a minute, anyway.”

They got up and went outside

but stayed in the hallway and kept talking for a little while.

The children did what they always do when somebody comes visiting.

I was standing next to a partisan

when the police or the Gestapo came.

They just shot wildly into the house.

Two partisans died straight away.

The third one followed me, when I ran away, into the kitchen.

There he wanted to get out of the door.

He was wounded.

A bullet went through my apron but didn’t hit me.

I hid myself in a hole under the stove.

The Gestapo, or policeman, came in and stuck his machinegun into the hole.

But he looked in and saw that there was only a child and pulled me out.

I was not frightened any more, feeling nothing.

I was in shock.