European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Don’t forget that Ljubljana was closed in by a wire fence at that time.
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The Italians enclosed the entire city with barbed wire. There were only a few exits from the city.
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They were strictly guarded, occasionally we could go out.
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We expressed resistance in many ways. Firstly, just by helping. This wasn’t manifested publicly.
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We collected food, clothes, for packages, for internees …
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Italy immediately began sending people
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that they considered suspicious of working for the LF to the internment camp.
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The internment camp was a horrible place.
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It wasn’t like Berlusconi said - that it was like going on a great holiday.
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Once in internment it was necessary to take care of the families of the internees and of the people who'd joined the partisans.
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And also families of the illegals, who didn’t get coupons for rations.
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So we had to collect necessities for everyday life.
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Places had to be arranged for meetings, in houses, where people were willing to risk letting people in for LF meetings.
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We, the participants at these meetings, didn’t know each other, but we had codes.
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You’d arrive with a code, introduce yourself to the owner of the apartment. Then he would respond with a code.
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That way we knew we could trust each other. We even had code names for each other.
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We expressed ourselves publicly with writing actions to instill courage in the population of the city and Slovenia.
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We would write codes on walls advocating the LF. We would litter the city.
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Sometimes it was completely strewn with papers advocating the LF.
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Once, two of us, both members of the district committee of the LF in Siska –
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