European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I joined the Partisans in 1943, I had all my documents, and I could prove it. In the end we made it home.
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It was the morning or maybe afternoon of May 16th when I arrived here at Kropa.
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That’s just how things were at Kropa after the war; people were gone.
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I went back to Celje too; with the bicycle. Our brigade had already left.
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Mesic had said to me that he had heard we would be moving out of Celje.
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I said that if they move before I return, for them to leave a message at this woman’s house.
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There was an old woman, perhaps she was in her 60s or 70s.
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Upon my return with that bicycle, I got the message and it wrote Mali –
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that was my Partisan name – we went to Zagreb, to Maksimir.
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Coming to Slovenia with the brigade
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Our brigade stepped onto Slovenian soil at Sedlarjevo without a fight.
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The Germans were retreating and we went right on in.
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Then we came down to Podcetrtek.
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There were people standing along the road in Podcetrtek.
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We passed by, I was riding my horse – because now I was already a commanding officer of the ‘rear support unit’ –
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so I was riding my horse and someone calls out Ivo!
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I felt a shudder of fear. Who could possibly know me here? I had never been to Podcetrtek or anywhere hereabouts.
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And then a second time Ivo, Ivo, come here!
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I looked around and recognized the girl. She was a former classmate of mine. She’s still alive today.
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She came to me and invited me to come over to eat. I told her Thank you,
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