European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I always answered: “No, I’m not sad.”
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I said that out of defiance and out of furiousness.
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I got so furious when someone asked me about that.
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I either didn’t answer at all or I just coldly said: “No, I’m not sad at all.”
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Although I was very sad, really, that nobody would come back to the house of my birth.
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Two aunts got killed with the partisans,
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my mother and one aunt died in the concentration camp in Ravensbrück.
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Two uncles died in Dachau
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and one cousin got killed with the partisans,
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one uncle fell in Russia.
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Altogether
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it added up to 12 people that died.
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They were my closest relatives, who I grew up with, who were near and dear to me.
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The mother was in the concentration camp.
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Father went to the partisans.
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He had fought for Hitler in Finland or somewhere, before.
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He saw that it was wrong and when he came home on holiday, he went to the partisans.
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But he was with them for only for ten minutes and died,
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because somebody betrayed him.
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Partisan killed at farmers house
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