European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I collaborated well with these two. At the time I knew Slovene and a little Serbocroatian.
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We had learned some in school. That’s how we communicated.
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One morning the mother brought a picture, an icon of the Mother Mary.
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I said mother in Russian to her – a little Russian, a little Slovene and a little Serbocroatian – and I asked her why she brings this picture.
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I explained that we have such pictures hanging on our walls. She said that her girls and boys were communists.
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I knew almost nothing about communism.
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Basically because we never learned anything about it or about politics and political parties.
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She said at the time you know, mine are komsomoljki. The word komsomolj was foreign to me.
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That’s how well we communicated, we worked well together, and we gave food to these girls for their efforts.
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Once, the younger girl said Ivo, listen, I have a bomaska for you.
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You’re wondering what a bomaska is?
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It’s a quarter piece of paper on which something is written, half in German and half in Russian.
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Can you read Russian? Yes, I said, so-so. She asked how so-so? I just said so-so.
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The Russian alphabet has more letters than Cyrillic’s.
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I knew a little German and a little Russian and a little Serbocroatian and of course Slovene; so I read it.
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The younger girl told me that if I get caught by the Soviet’s, that this bomaska will get me an extra piece of bread.
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I had no idea why this bomaska was so valuable.
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At any rate, it’s what the younger girl said to me,
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that when the Russians capture me I must show this and I’ll receive an extra piece of bread.
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Mobilization into the Wehrmacht
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