European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Of course they had already pulled back and disappeared.

Life in fear

They were very frightened – of course.

They heard when one was caught and another one…

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,