European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I used old stage scenery from the Sokolski dom in Crnomelj.
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A house painter from Crnomelj helped me and together we managed to paint over all of it and get everything ready.
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Hiding: Alenka Joins the Partisan Movement
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As soon as my father was taken, I began to sleep elsewhere.
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As long as my family was around,
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they wouldn’t let me go underground because it might cause repercussions for them.
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They could be taken away to the internment camp etc.
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But once they took my father away, and then evicted my mother from the apartment 14 days later
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I knew that I couldn’t stay in a legal apartment anymore.
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I immediately moved, to the house of a colleague, Erni Korijari.
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She was a member of the LF and worked in props at the Ljubljana Drama house. She took me into hiding at her place.
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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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