European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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,

in Solcava it was called, Logarska Dolina.

It was so dangerous they decided the aunt should go back to Carinthia.

Hidden in an earth cellar

We were quite desperate.