European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

‘Why does she give us so little all the time?’ We did not understand that she had to economize.

After a while she gave us some more and explained that she had to ration.

It was always dangerous to stay in one bunker for too long;

far away from the farmers, resulting in bad provisions.

So we went over a mountain into Yugoslavia.

That time we walked the whole night.

So long that I fell asleep walking.

When we were outside at night I always watched the stars.

That was the only amusement we had.

Here and there we were in a stable, that was nice.

It was warm in the stable and we were used to the smell.

The main thing was that it was warm and safe there.

But most of the time we stayed in bunkers.

There was fighting, as well.

Once, we were hiding in the forest when there was fighting.

A partisan pushed me down behind a tree and

held me down so I could not get up.

They were shooting, we saw flashes the whole night.

I do not know how we got out of that. But we did get out of it.

Until April, there was fighting in Slovenia,