European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We did not believe him that it was really true; that the war was over.

That was unbelievable – persecution,

respectively the hunt for the resistance fighters would be over one day.

In those days we sang, ate, were happy, and kissed –

nobody can imagine the way it was in those days.

We were all so happy.

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