European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

My role in the LF varied.

It wasn’t just a secret network limited to Ljubljana.

It went through all of Slovenia, developing gradually.

and the founding meeting took place on Vecna pot in Ljubljana.

Then it spread inwards to Koroska and to the Primorje region as well.

So Slovenia was completely covered, but not all at once. I had a variety of roles.

First I was just a girl incorporated into the LF group with students.

Later I was connected with the field committee,

The Italians enclosed the entire city with barbed wire. There were only a few exits from the city.

We collected food, clothes, for packages, for internees …

The internment camp was a horrible place.

It wasn’t like Berlusconi said - that it was like going on a great holiday.

So we had to collect necessities for everyday life.

We, the participants at these meetings, didn’t know each other, but we had codes.

You’d arrive with a code, introduce yourself to the owner of the apartment. Then he would respond with a code.

We expressed ourselves publicly with writing actions to instill courage in the population of the city and Slovenia.

We would write codes on walls advocating the LF. We would litter the city.

Sometimes it was completely strewn with papers advocating the LF.

Once, two of us, both members of the district committee of the LF in Siska –

Another time we wrote all over Celovska Street, opposite the Union brewery.