European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Some were braver than the men.

Three of those women I took into my heart and will never forget.

They had no fears.

If there was any returned shooting they shot just the same as the others.

But some were placid.

They had nothing to laugh about, because of their “monthly problems”.

To manage all that and get through was not easy.

But they did get through and showed courage.

Most of them did the paper work in the battalions, for the bigger organisations.

But not everyone got a job like that.

But it was not easy for the women.

Some women were picked to help the wounded.

They were also very courageous. They helped as well as they could.

When I was wounded on 19th March 1945, women were there, as well.

They helped me first and then carried me to a farmer’s

and from there behind a hut that had been a wood shed before.

They had a shack for the forestry workers and that was where I lived until the end of the war.

Again it were the women who helped me.

They brought milk, bread and sugar.

They cared for me like my mother.