European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

"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.

So I walked on in this ditch and then into another ditch.

In the meantime I heard the Germans were gathering, I could hear their horses.

I sat down near an elm and heard the belltower of Barco.

It was one o'clock, half past one, two o'clock.

With the dawning daylight I saw there was a house nearby and went there.

There were no watchdogs, so I went to the window of the house

and saw an old lady with a stick lighting the fire.

I looked around and slowly slowly ...

At that time the peasants did not lock their doors as they do today,

they left the door open to go to the stable.

I knocked at the door and called: "Grandma! Grandma!"

When she saw me she got scared and fell off the chair she was sitting on.

I tried to pick her up and the daughter came down asking what was going on.