European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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A few days after I moved, the Gestapo visited my mother,
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she didn’t have her own apartment anymore, and stayed at her sister’s place.
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They wanted to know where I was. My mother didn’t know.
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But she got the message to me that the Gestapo had come looking for me.
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I passed that message to my superiors in the LF network.
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From then onwards I was taken care of.
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That was how it was done in Ljubljana:
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Every building had a list of all the people staying there. Every so often there would be raids.
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If anyone not on the list was found during these raids,
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they were taken away; as were those hiding them.
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People would take the risk,
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they would consciously accept this person into their home and even partly share their food.
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The counterfeit ration coupons – everyone had ration coupons –
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made for the illegal would always come with great delay,
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often when you weren’t allowed to be there anymore.
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As illegals we would have to stay with people who didn’t even know who we were.
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They just trusted us in needing help, on the basis of the code word.
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I could get in anywhere with the code word, and the owner would respond with a code word and then I could stay there.
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I had to change homes several times because I’d sneeze in the room I was hiding in.
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Someone outside would happen to hear it and comment that someone must be home.
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