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JOINING THE PARTISAN ARMY (LIPEJ KOLENIK)

interview  // german  // 3:17 Min  // 17.06.2008  // Hits: 82
So, I went home for 14 days. On the first evening the partisans, acquaintances were already there. After 14 days the holiday was over. “Well, what are we going to do, mother?” My mother was crying again: she sprinkled me with holy water and things like that. “Mother, that doesn’t help! I will not go back to the ones that sentenced us to death.” So I went and the commander of the partisans said: “We will come and pick you up. We will bring enough people so your family won’t be resettled or get locked into jail.” The evening came. No partisan called up, but the commander had told me I would be gone in the evening. I went back to Bleiburg and picked up my military equipment and put it on. – Nobody came. And on the next day I met the commander of the partisans and said to him: “Why didn’t you come?” Then he said to me: “You know by yourself where you belong.” That was easily said in those days. But it was not an easy thing to do. But, thank God, the English bombarded Klagenfurt in those days and when the police came afterwards to ask if I had reported somewhere, my mother said: “May be he has been killed in the air raid or so.” And my Mother was clever. There was an illegal co-worker of the partisans, activists (in Bleiburg). And after 2 to 3 weeks, mother gave one of them, a parcel to take it to this woman. Later this woman took the parcel to the post with my military address on it, the one I should have reported to after my holiday. The parcel came back again… So, the parcels kept going backwards and forwards.

Kolenik, Lipej
@Widerstand
1943
Contemporary witnesses of the Nazi-Regime

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