European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The aunt asked the grandmother whether she could leave the youngest daughter there,
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because she was very ill.
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This woman said she could. The girl would die otherwise.
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I thought: ‘Oh, she can stay and I have to go again; and it is so nice and warm here.’
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We were so full and it was wonderful.
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So I lay down on the bench and thought: ‘what could I do to be allowed to stay?’
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I played being unconscious.
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Whenever they picked me up I fell down again until the woman said:
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“This one is so exhausted, you cannot take her either. Just let her stay here.”
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That possibly saved my life.
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When the aunt left she went to a bunker in Ojstra, in Carinthia, near Eisenkappl.
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This bunker was betrayed and she was shot dead.
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The others got away, but she didn’t.
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If I would have been there I don’t know what would have happened to me.
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At the farmer’s it was really nice.
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But it was still war and it was the last farmer before the border. There was bad fighting there.
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Hiding with partisans in bunkers
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At the end of January 1944
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the aunt got us ready and dressed.
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We asked: “Where are we going?”
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