European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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He begged to be shot again and was looking at us pleadingly.
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I had to step right over their heads.
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I still remember these eyes.
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Whenever I see blue eyes like these somewhere, I remember this man.
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I do have a problem with that; I cannot forget that.
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Then they took me inside to the two old farmers and my cousin.
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One of them just wanted to shoot us and burn the house down.
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Another one said: “You shouldn’t do that.
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The partisans have to be buried, everything cleaned.
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In two hours time a patrol will come and there mustn’t be anything showing.”
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And they did that.
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The farmer buried the partisans and the farmer’s wife cleaned up, wiped the blood up.
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It was hard for her to mop all that and she cried hard, kneeling in the blood.
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My cousin and I were totally shattered.
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The farmer’s wife said: “You stay indoors and don’t go outside.
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Don’t you tell anybody what happened.” We didn’t.
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If somebody told us to keep something to ourselves, we did.
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We protected the partisans so much when we were kids;
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they were our friends
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and the Germans were our enemies.
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