European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We were split up in battle and some of us went to Bosnia, some of us went up towards Srem, towards Sid, and we went to Drvar.
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Then we were on the Srem front, where there was plenty fighting
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and we headed in one direction once and another direction another time … Slowly, slowly, we moved towards Slovenia.
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It was 1945 already.
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We spent the New Year on the Srem front,
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but we continued heading north and we came to the Croatian – Slovenian border on 11 April.
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We came to the Sotla River. Sedlarjevo was on the Slovenian side. I don’t remember the name, it was a small village.
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Joining the Yugoslav Brigade
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Then the order came, you’re going out.
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I don’t know if there was any guard there at all; where would one escape to anyway?
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Winter was perpetual, no not perpetual, but the snow…
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They brought us to Moscow, or really it was Krasnogorsk.
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There was a prisoner of war camp in Krasnogorsk. There were all sorts of nationalities represented there:
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Slovenians, Croatians, Czechs, Polacks and even French.
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They sort of trained us in Krasnogorsk.
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That’s what I think and we also debated it among us - we were going to be sent in against Hitler, against Germany.
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We all decided that we would do it. So in Krasnogrosk we were prepared, they changed us …
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it’ll sound a bit wicked how I say it … from Fascism to Bolshevism, or from Nationalism to Bolshevism.
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That’s how we imagined things were at the time, because there was no sentry or guard watching over us in Krasnogorsk.
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I think we were there in Krasnogorsk perhaps about one month.
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