European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

Then I had to step over these partisans. He made me step over the dead people!

One of them was not dead, yet.

He begged to be shot again and was looking at us pleadingly.