European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

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.

Then we remembered we still had another aunt nearby.

We would go there; it was aunty Amalija.

She had three children of her own, and her husband was still at home.

We stayed there. But the aunt had such a small flat.

So she went to our house, where she looked after the small animals

and us children because we had enough to eat at home.

But it was an area for partisans and there was always fighting.