European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

We always thought: ‘hopefully that won’t happen to us’.

Everybody was living with fear at this time;

at home, as well. They did not know what was going to happen.

In our family: my brother fell in 1942 in Russia,

1943 they enlisted the second brother, 1944 I was arrested,

and in January 1945 my other brother was enlisted.

Nobody knew how it would end.

It was a horrible thing for the families.

You had to get through it and still believe in a good ending.

That was part of it.

Ana´s tasks in the resistance group

We took on different tasks:

mail,

messenger service,

food (that was important, too),

clothes,

and a very important thing: medical supplies.

They were important, because there was always somebody wounded,

and they had to attend to him until they had the opportunity to take him across the river Drau

into the Karawanken, because there was a partisan hospital where they took the wounded.