European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That’s why for us the end of the war is still the most important day to be celebrated.

Back then it was the end of the Nazi fascism

and we cannot forget all the ones who were in the forest,

in a concentration camp or locked up by Nazi fascists.

For all those it is unforgettable.

We cannot understand that the people care so little about this day, 8th May – the end of the war.

We were happy, but it just looks as if it was the other way round.

They lost the war and that’s why they never celebrate.

Later on they made the 26th October a national hiking day or so.

What do they hike for?

Nobody thinks about that. What happened and what was achieved by that – peace.

We are always for it; every day.

Never again: war and fascism.

Women in the resistance

The women were really poor.

Because they really had to pay for this, more than the others.

But they were really brave women.

Some were braver than the men.

Three of those women I took into my heart and will never forget.

They had no fears.