European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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These demonstrations were held in front of the train station,
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and then in front of the military leadership and the administrational leadership of the occupier.
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Eventually, in front of the Ljubljana diocese, as well. I was at all of these demonstrations.
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More were held here in the cemetery, by the graves of the hostages.
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It was the Italian occupiers who gunned down every LF movement. They shot so many innocent hostages.
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Today it still is a small graveyard of those who fell as hostages.
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The largest movement was at the surrender, at the fall of fascism, not yet the surrender of Italy.
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At that time Italy, as the occupier, felt weaker and we could afford to stage a huge demonstration on Miklosiceva Street.
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Men and women alike participated. Miklosiceva Street was swarmed with demonstrators.
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I noticed how the occupiers’ military vehicles went up and down the road
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and how the soldiers sat on them and how some of them seemed in favor of what we were doing.
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Some even smiled or waved. Soon after, Italy surrendered.
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The Assassination of Alenka’s father
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I was terribly upset then that Ljubljana was occupied. I think the majority of Ljubljana residents were.
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Ljubljana was actually on the border of the occupation zone.
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The north of Ljubljana was occupied by the Germans,
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not to mention the border of present-day Hungary.
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So I went straight to the telephone – there weren’t many at the time, but we had one in our home –
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and called my friends, who I’d heard whispering stuff. I had sensed it had something to do with the occupier.
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For many years I also taught drawing at various schools,
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