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FAMILY ARRESTED (ROMANA VERDEL)

interview  // german  // 2:51 Min  // 15.06.2008  // Hits: 205
I was born in Remschenig near Eisenkappel into a Slovenian family; at my aunt’s, really, where my mother was a farm maid. In this house lived: my sister, Zofija Rotter, my mother, Ana Rotter and I. There was another aunt, Marija Rotter, with her daughter, Marija Rotter, and then there were Jurij Sluga, Katarina’s husband, and his brother Hanzi Sluga and Katarina’s sons Michael Sluga, Karl Sluga and Franz Rotter. Well, Franz Rotter was a member of the German ‘Wehrmacht’; so was Karl Sluga, who crossed over to the partisans. Michael Sluga joined the partisans straight away instead of enlisting. In1943 it became dangerous and that was when Katarina Sluga escaped to the partisans. This aunt (where we were living) was very much interested in culture and politics. She soon started to organise meetings against Hitler and to attend other meetings and so on. Therefore she was politically suspicious so we all were in danger. But she was aware that something could happen, as she had people who sent her a message to withdraw. For her it was dangerous now. So she backed away to the partisans and thought that everything would be okay, there would not be any danger for the others, if she went. But she was wrong. When the Gestapo came it was dangerous for all of them. They arrested them all.

Verdel, Romana
@Verfolgung
1939
Contemporary witnesses of the Nazi-Regime

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