European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Many would have had an opportunity but didn’t risk it.
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I was not fit to work for the front any more.
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For me there would have probably been a job.
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But I didn’t want to. I could not share the responsibility to work with the ones that wanted to eliminate us.
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The partisans had problems with the provisions
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and sleeping in the forest overnight.
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Here and there in houses as well, still, but most of the time in the forest.
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Even in the cold and snow. The clothes froze on you.
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You felt stiff as a straw mattress.
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Only those of really a tough nature were able to handle that.
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People incapable of handling this deserted.
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That didn’t help.
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Joining the partisan army
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So I went home.
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On the first evening the partisans, acquaintances were already there.
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After 14 days the holiday was over.
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“Well, what are we going to do, mother?” My mother was crying again.
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She sprinkled me with holy water.
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“Mother, that doesn’t help! I will not go back to the ones that sentenced us to death.”
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So I went and the commander of the partisans said:
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