European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Already my heart began to race. We were permitted to take leave for only up to five kilometers.
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So he looks at me and asks again how many kilometers?
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I said five, maybe five and a half, not six, I struck that out quickly.
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He asks how I will go. I say on foot.
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When I got out of that building, I saw a bicycle right out front. It was a German bicycle.
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Maybe someone had left it there, maybe it even belonged to someone in that very building, I don’t know.
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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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