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HIDDEN IN AN EARTH CELLAR (ROMANA VERDEL)

interview  // german  // 2:06 Min  // 15.06.2008  // Hits: 173
We were quite desperate. Then we remembered that we still had another aunt nearby. We would go there; it was aunty Amalija. She had three children of her own, and her husband (her partner, really) was still at home. We stayed there. But the aunt had such a small flat. So she went to our house, where she looked after the small animals and us children because we had enough to eat at home; plus the small animals to live on. But it was an area for partisans and there was always fighting, so it was dangerous at the house. So we could stay around the house during the day and at night she locked us into the cellar and went home. She left two of her children there, because they were bigger - and took the youngest one with her. Then there were the two of us still, and the cousin. We slept in the cellar. It was an earth cellar, really, a cellar in the rock and it was very damp, cold and totally dark, because everything was padded with hay and covers so nobody would hear us, if we would whisper. But we weren’t allowed to cough or to go out to the loo and that was really bad. We could always hear people walk around outside, but we didn’t know whether they were Gestapo or partisans. It was very exiting but very dangerous.

Verdel, Romana
@Verfolgung
1943
Contemporary witnesses of the Nazi-Regime

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