European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And once the group was formed we would get our work.
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That’s how we came together; there were ten of us Slovenians. Then we got our tools, saws, axes …
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We were sent into the forest to cut down trees.
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There was enough food while we were in Russian captivity.
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Perhaps there wasn’t much bread. The Russians up in Siberia, in the taiga, they only cook ‘supa’ and ‘kasha’.
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You’re probably wondering what ‘supa’ and ‘kasha’ are. ‘Supa’ is everything that is cooked and still fluid.
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‘Kahsa’ is porridge; everything like mashed potatoes, solid foods.
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We only got fish food there, which there was enough of, not much bread, but enough.
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After a while, it was still winter, all the Slovenians and also Croatians
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and other nationalities were all together according to the nationalities.
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Maybe the Slovenians and Croatians were together …
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First contact with the Soviet resistance
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After some heavy fighting at Dnjepr Petrovski and at Orel in the hinterland of the German fighting line,
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I came to the small village of Balakleja.
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There I came to stay with a family. The parents had two daughters.
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One was my age; the other was two years younger.
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I collaborated well with these two. At the time I knew Slovene and a little Serbocroatian.
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We had learned some in school. That’s how we communicated.
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One morning the mother brought a picture, an icon of the Mother Mary.
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I said mother in Russian to her – a little Russian, a little Slovene and a little Serbocroatian – and I asked her why she brings this picture.
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