European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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As soon as we started to go to school,
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we already understood that things were different for us children of antifascists,
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compared to those of the fascists, who were enrolled in the “Balilla”, in the “Piccole Italiane” - the fascist youth organizations.
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I noticed and realized this when I was six,
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and I started asking my father why we were considered differently from the others.
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My father tried to explain it to me, as best he could since I was still a little girl.
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He would have never enlisted us in the “Piccole Italiane”, or the boys in the “Balilla”.
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As we got older we began to understand how things were going, that the antifascists had to go underground.
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I was ten, it was obvious by then.
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In 1933, when they started arresting a lot of people (they arrested and beat people even before that),
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I realized the situation, and some of our neighbours were arrested that year.
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Demobilisation; civil life starts
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Eventually the day came that I was to be demobilized.
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I received 5000 dinars; that was a lot of money at the time.
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When I left the office of Sekulic, he took hold of my epaulettes, tore them off and stomped on them.
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These two stars, I had two on each shoulder because I was a second lieutenant, I still have them today.
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That’s how I was demobilized, in the end of november.
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I got home and immediately I became a secretary for the Liberation Front (LF).
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The LF was set up then without districts. There were just the LF’s, they had the power.
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There was this man who was the president of it and he was also a Partisan.
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