European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Once we had withdrawn from Bela krajina and gone to Gorski Kotar,
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(the entire active militia was heading towards Trieste), we, the reserve units, followed along behind.
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He had his first heart attack in Gorski Kotar, but recovered from that.
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We then got to Ljubljana with the impression the war was ending; the end of sicknesses, the end of all bad things.
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It was only a year and three months later that he died of a cardiac valve infection, a death sentence at that time.
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Cultural work among the partisans
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There were many, many cultural workers with the partisans.
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And my humble self was among them.
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For one play, for Bor’s Raztrganci, I contributed the stage scenery.
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One of the most important features
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of the ‘Technical Center’ (of the Slovene Communist Party Workshop) was the partisan printing press.
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Partisan printing presses were hidden all throughout the hills of Kocevski Rog and Goteniski Sneznik.
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They printed partisan newspapers, brochures, and even poetry collections and song-books.
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Joining the Partisans: The First Task
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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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