European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We expressed it in many ways. Firstly, just by helping. This wasn’t manifested publicly.
We expressed it in many ways. Firstly, just by helping. This wasn’t manifested publicly.
We expressed resistance in many ways. Firstly, just by helping. This wasn’t manifested publicly. -
We collected food, clothes, for packages, for internees …
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Italy had immediately begun to send people
Italy had immediately begun to send people
Italy immediately began sending people -
whom they considered suspicious of working for the LF to the internment camp.
whom they considered suspicious of working for the LF to the internment camp.
that they considered suspicious of working for the LF to the internment camp. -
The internment camp was a horrible place.
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It wasn’t like Berlusconi said - that it was like going on a great holiday.
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Once in internment it was necessary to take care of the families of the internees and of people who joined the partisans.
Once in internment it was necessary to take care of the families of the internees and of people who joined the partisans.
Once in internment it was necessary to take care of the families of the internees and of the people who'd joined the partisans. -
And also of the illegal, which didn’t get coupons for rations.
And also of the illegal, which didn’t get coupons for rations.
And also families of the illegals, who didn’t get coupons for rations. -
So we had to collect necessities for everyday life.
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Places had to be arranged for meetings, in houses, where people were willing to risk letting people in to LF meetings.
Places had to be arranged for meetings, in houses, where people were willing to risk letting people in to LF meetings.
Places had to be arranged for meetings, in houses, where people were willing to risk letting people in for LF meetings. -
We, the participants at these meetings, didn’t know each other, but we had codes.
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You’d arrive with a code, introduce yourself to the owner of the apartment. Then he would respond with a code.
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That way we knew we could trust each other. We even had code names among each other.
That way we knew we could trust each other. We even had code names among each other.
That way we knew we could trust each other. We even had code names for each other. -
We expressed ourselves publicly with writing actions to instill courage in the population of the city and Slovenia.
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We would write codes on walls advocating the LF. We would litter the city.
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Sometimes it was completely strewn with papers advocating the LF.
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Once, two of us, both members of the district committee of the LF in Siska –
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it was Vida Janezic, who today is proclaimed a national hero –
it was Vida Janezic, who today is proclaimed a national hero –
it was Vida Janezic, who today is proclaimed a national hero, and I – -
we both used a bucket and poured axle grease along the length of Celovska Street and stuck it with LF inscriptions.
we both used a bucket and poured axle grease along the length of Celovska Street and stuck it with LF inscriptions.
we both used a bucket and poured axle grease along the length of Celovska Street and covered it with LF inscriptions. -
Another time we wrote all over Celovska Street, opposite the Union brewery.