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LIBERATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TODAY (LIPEJ KOLENIK)

interview  // german  // 3:15 Min  // 17.06.2008  // Hits: 316
Well, I had been looking forward to the day when the war would be over, before. But unfortunately I was wounded. My brother was with the partisans, as well. He came with a horse and took me home. And he came into the shack. The horse came first and then the man. “Who is coming into the forest now?” And then he came and said: “Lipej, come on. The war is over!” We did not believe him that it was really true; that the war was over. That was unbelievable – persecution, respectively the hunt for the resistance fighters would be over one day. And in those days – we sang, ate, were happy, and kissed – nobody can imagine the way it was in those days. We were all so happy. And that’s why for us the end of the war is still the most important day to be celebrated. Back then it was the end of the Nazi fascism and we cannot forget all the ones who were in the forest, all the ones that were in a concentration camp or locked up by Nazi fascists. For all those it is unforgettable and we cannot understand that the people care so little about this day, 8th May – the end of the war. We were happy, were glad, but it just looks as if it was the other way round. They lost the war and that’s why they never celebrate. Later on they made the 26th October a national hiking day or so. What is that? What do they hike for? But nobody thinks about that. What happened and what was achieved by that – peace. We are always for it; every day, never again: war and fascism.

Kolenik, Lipej
@THE END OF THE WAR / REFUGEES
1945
Contemporary witnesses of the Nazi-Regime

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