European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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is the result of the actions of many perhaps completely insignificant people,
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who together can achieve something historically significant.
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So I decided that I can’t let myself just stand aside.
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So I went straight to the telephone – there weren’t many at the time, but we had one in our home –
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and called my friends, who I’d heard whispering stuff. I had sensed it had something to do with the occupier.
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I said I wanted to get ‘in’, that I also wanted to do whatever they knew about. The very next day I was called to my first meeting.
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Introduction
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For many years I also taught drawing at various schools,
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but now in my old age I have dedicated myself entirely to my primary vocation – painting.
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I’m 87 years old. My generation experienced WWII.
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Experienced massive changes during the war and then after the war as well.
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I must say that we imagined a different world after WWII. A different world would arise than the one we live in now.
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But one just has to adjust one’s expectations to what is going on in society.
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At the time I was very active in Ljubljana and a lot was going on in Ljubljana.
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The walls were plastered with lists of hostages
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and practically every day you would be informed of something horrible.
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It is difficult to say whether one could even feel in the mood to create some great piece of art.
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Nonetheless, I would, just to remain a painter –
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usually doing things similar to that in the program at the Zagreb Academy – just enough to stay in condition.
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It was later, when I joined the partisans that I could finally make use of my painting skills.
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