European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We stepped out of the hen coop and one of them said that we’re going to headquarters.
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When we got there someone asked me my surname. Once more I said Ivan Ivanovic Srcnikov.
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He spoke Russian and said something about some measurements; I didn’t understand because he was speaking too fast.
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He explained to me that I was standing before a table and that something is on the table, but he didn’t say what.
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He said that I would have to show him by the time he counted to ten.
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I still didn’t know what.
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My eyes were still tied.
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He untied my eyes and said that I must show him where Celje is.
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I forgot to mention that I had said I was from Celje.
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I thought that if I were to say I was from Kropa, they wouldn’t know where it was.
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If I were to say I was from Gornji grad, it’d be even worse. So I said I was from Celje.
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This man, the one who pulled out the map said that if I can show him where Celje is on the map, then I am a Yugoslav.
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He said by the time he counts to ten; if I can’t, then I go to the Slivnjak, down by the plum trees.
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Then he counted ras, dva, tri, shetiri… And I showed him, here it is.
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He patted me on the shoulder and said ti Jugoslav, meaning: you are a Yugoslav and now you’ve convinced us.
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I went to Siberia.
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We went with these German people; they took us to Siberia, where we met up with other Slovenians.
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All the Slovenians gathered together and we were told that we may each choose our own group.
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And once the group was formed we would get our work.
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That’s how we came together; there were ten of us Slovenians. Then we got our tools, saws, axes …
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