European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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They had nothing.
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That’s why we started to get hold of small things for them.
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It might seem nothing to you now, but every time we went to ask families for a pair of pants,
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gloves, a shirt or a pair of shoes to send off to the partisans, we risked our lives.
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It was extremely dangerous, because the fascists, assisted by the Germans, would arrest us and torture us.
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The women who worked in the Women support groups in the lowlands faced danger everyday.
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We carried out our tasks open-faced, and we had no battle names.
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For example, we handed out leaflets and circulated news. News went around in our bags, by bicycle.
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As for leaflets, if you were stopped, just like they did with me in front of the hospice,
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you would have been locked up for the rest of your life.
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We moved weapons around. I used to hide hand grenades in a bag with potatoes:
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hand grenades at the bottom, potatoes on top.
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Especially at the beginning, partisans assaulted fascist garrisons to get hold of weapons.
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These weapons had to be carried around from one person to the other.
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It was also vital to circulate news. Those in the mountains had to know what was going on in the lowlands.
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We would go back and forth to pass on these small notes regarding the Germans’ activities,
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if mop-ups were taking place, if our men were in danger.
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In the event of a mop-up we told each other by bicycle.
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Then four or five of us from around the hamlet would pass on the warning.
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In about half an hour the boys and men who had deserted knew that they had to leave and hide in the countryside.
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