European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

When they understood that we were inside the stable

they shouted at us to come out with our hands up.

Our light was burning, and one of us broke the lamp to hide us in the dark.

As soon as the light went off the shot at us.

They killed two cows and a donkey.

One of us had taken his shoes off and ran away barefoot.

We escaped to the other side of the door because we were surrounded on this side;

an iron door, that door was never opened before.

Then with three or four hits we managed to force it.

Then one by one outside while they were shooting,

but they were shooting at the cows and we were doing it on time.

I lost track of the others, there was a hen-house but they weren't there.

I went around the house but it was the wrong direction,

I went out on the street and all of a sudden I heard somebody saying:

"Come here with your hands up!"

I shot at him and went hiding in the hen-house and from there into a ditch.

From inside the ditch i saw the road going down towards the cemetery.

But there was lots of snow.

I walked inside the ditch filled with water in order not to leave tracks in the snow.

I couldn't see the rest of my group anymore.