European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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But there was lots of snow.
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I walked inside the ditch filled with water in order not to leave tracks in the snow.
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I couldn't see the rest of my group anymore.
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So I walked on in this ditch and then into another ditch.
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In the meantime I heard the Germans were gathering, I could hear their horses.
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I went to the left, I went to the right and eventually stopped where I was.
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I sat down near an elm and heard the belltower of Barco.
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It was one o'clock, half past one, two o'clock.
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With the dawning daylight I saw there was a house nearby and went there.
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There were no watchdogs, so I went to the window of the house
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and saw an old lady with a stick lighting the fire.
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I looked around and slowly slowly ...
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At that time the peasants did not lock their doors as they do today,
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they left the door open to go to the stable.
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I knocked at the door and called: "Grandma! Grandma!"
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When she saw me she got scared and fell off the chair she was sitting on.
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I tried to pick her up and the daughter came down asking what was going on.
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I said: "Nothing, nothing".
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She said: "We heard shooting, we heard noises, what's going on?"
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"Nothing, now, we’ll take care of your grandma and then we'll see."
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