European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

As long as my family was around,

They could be taken away to the internment camp etc.

A few days after I moved, the Gestapo visited my mother,

They wanted to know where I was. My mother didn’t know.

But she got the message to me that the Gestapo had come looking for me.

From then onwards I was taken care of.

That was how it was done in Ljubljana:

If anyone not on the list was found during these raids,

People would take the risk,

The counterfeit ration coupons – everyone had ration coupons –

made for the illegal would always come with great delay,

often when you weren’t allowed to be there anymore.

I could get in anywhere with the code word, and the owner would respond with a code word and then I could stay there.

I had to change homes several times because I’d sneeze in the room I was hiding in.

Someone outside would happen to hear it and comment that someone must be home.

after four months of hiding from house to house,

She told me that a LF courier would bring me a fake passport that evening

and I’d be leaving to join the partisans in the morning.