European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was lucky to be given passage to the partisans.
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That evening a courier brought me my passport, a fake one with a made-up name.
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I headed to the train station and took a train down to Primorje.
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The last call was in a place called Kosana; that’s where all the illegals from Ljubljana went.
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Again we had to know the code.
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The landlord was the innkeeper at the Dolgan Inn.
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I turned to him to say the code – "Matija sends me from Ljubljana." He responded – "Vremscica."
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At the time I didn’t know what Vremscica was. After WWII, I became a mountaineer and hiked up Vremscica many times.
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It’s a beautiful mountain with a gorgeous view.
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I came to the partisans relatively late. I’d been in hiding in Ljubljana for four months. I left in July 1944.
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A very long journey ensued, of course.
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Our ultimate destination was the village of Obcice pod Kolevskim Rogom.
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You know what?
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It was all unforgettably beautiful, just my leaving Ljubljana and going to liberated territory.
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It was something incredible to me, to find myself suddenly surrounded by nature after four months of hiding in basements.
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The journey through the Kolpa valley was extremely beautiful: first Cebranke and then Kolpa,
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Which is when we left the liberated territory and headed into the Loska valley towards Bela krajina.
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Additionally, I finally got to work on art work. I was also perfectly willing to join the brigade.
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Although I don’t know how that might have worked out – considering my sensitivity to the thundering of explosions.
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Probably not well at all. But at that point they weren’t taking females into the brigade anymore.
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