European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Although I was very sad, really, that nobody would come back to the house of my birth.

Two aunts got killed with the partisans,

my mother and one aunt died in the concentration camp in Ravensbrück.

Two uncles died in Dachau

and one cousin got killed with the partisans,

one uncle fell in Russia.

Altogether

it added up to 12 people that died.

They were my closest relatives, who I grew up with, who were near and dear to me.

The mother was in the concentration camp.

Father went to the partisans.

He had fought for Hitler in Finland or somewhere, before.

He saw that it was wrong and when he came home on holiday, he went to the partisans.

But he was with them for only for ten minutes and died,

because somebody betrayed him.

Partisan killed at farmers house

We were always in danger of something happening and it did.

One day three partisans came (friends of the farmer and one relative)

and came in for a snack.

The farmer said: “You did not put up any guards.”