European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
-
My mother was left with nothing from what had been, before,
-
the quite comfortable lifestyle of an intellectual Ljubljana family.
-
I also had nothing. When my husband and I were demobilized, there was nothing left.
-
We were used to living modestly already during the war. But this wasn’t the main problem.
-
The main problem was that my father was gone, my husband was gone, and many of my friends were gone.
-
One had to survive. So I’ve gotten by for most of my life.
-
I’ve supported myself as an art teacher, initially in high schools and then, following the reorganization of the schooling system, in elementary schools.
-
Up to my retirement in 1969, when I finally found my true calling.
-
Partisan Vito, Alenka's husband
-
Later on, Vito, a partisan not yet 26 years old, came to the Technical Center.
-
Vito was an extremely talented painter, despite not being schooled.
-
He wanted to become a vocational painter after the war.
-
Vito came to the Technical Center after me.
-
Before, though, he'd spent a long time in an Italian internment camp.
-
Due to the long, harsh conditions there, he suffered from a very bad case of articular rheumatism.
-
He didn’t go home when Italy surrendered, because it would have still been too dangerous.
-
Instead, he went straight to the partisans, and in the dead of winter,
-
he joined the march of the Ljubljana brigade and the 18th Division to Gorski Kotar.
-
It was a terribly cold winter and his rheumatism got worse.
-
There were no antibiotics at the time or any such medicine.
No more segments to load.
Loading more segments…
© 2009-2024 WebTranslateIt Software S.L. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service
·
Privacy Policy
·
Security Policy