European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I saw it and I stole it, truly. It doesn’t matter; it was German. So I steal this bicycle and I start riding.
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It’s a little less than 50 kilometers from Celje to here, but I just disregarded that extra zero digit and I said it was only five.
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That’s the way I was.
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I got there, to where my mother lived on the Savinja side.
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I get to the left bank of the Savinja River and I see that the house is still standing up on the hill.
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Battles in Yugoslavia
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So we trained there.
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Initially I was in the company for ties, and then I was a radiotelegraph.
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It was in September or October of 1943 that we left. We went to the front.
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We didn’t go to the frontline, but we were right behind it.
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As the Soviet units marched on towards Germany,
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we cleaned up behind as the German units got dispersed in the forests and we had to clean them up.
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We crossed Romania, the Carpathian Mountains, and mostly we kept moving at night.
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To get enough sleep at night, the entire company would gather together
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and a rope would be tied to the cart and horse and then we each tied that rope around our waists,
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so we walked and slept. You would sleep while walking.
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If anybody in front of you fell down there would immediately be ten in a pile. That’s how we crossed the Carpathians.
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Then we came to Turnseverin. That was the Romanian – Yugoslavian border at the time.
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We crossed the Danube into the former Yugoslavia, or rather, occupied Yugoslavia.
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We were already liberating them at the time. We then joined in the combat at Cacak.
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