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Zablatnik, Ana

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Ana Zablatnik was born in 1923 in the village Ludmannsdorf/Bilčovs in the southern part of Carinthia. She belongs to the Slovenian speaking minority. Early, she and her family were confronted with ... more

DISCRIMINATION OF SLOVENES AFTER WAR (ANA ZABLATNIK)

interview  // german  // 4:51 Min  // 16.06.2008  // Hits: 113
You always hat to stick up for yourself and you were never accepted. At the inn you were laughed at or reviled as a betrayer of your home country. My father was playing music at the neighbour’s, when somebody took his trombone and broke it. Then he said: “Go home to Laibach or wherever you belong.” Things like that happened quite often. Or once, when we were at the inn, some youngsters came, about 16-17 years old, and shouted: “Bugger off!” and “Betrayers, what are you doing here?” Although my husband was recognised as a partisan, that happened as well. Over at Maddau, when the resettled families had their annual meeting in the public cinema, it was decided to have a silent protest march up to the cathedral. Although the bishop did not allow that, we still went up there anyway and there, at the police station, the police were already waiting with the fire brigade. When we got up there, there was a barrier. So some of our people jumped up and tried to clear the way. All of a sudden somebody shouted: “Water on!” or something. And then they pointed these hoses at us and instead of a greeting, they soaked us. On the other side the English were standing and I got so annoyed and said: “Oh, these are our confederates?” We laughed into their faces as our women - our mothers were crying and screaming. At that time I said: “If I could, I would jump into his face and rip his face apart.” In this situation, Austria being liberated, we being liberated, and you still have to face things like this, made us furious. But that’s the way it was. – Terrible, I thought more than just once.
Well, up to 1955, they were able to learn German and Slovenian in school, as it was a bilingual area. All of a sudden, with the treaty, it was different again. A state treaty was around 1957. The teachers went out onto the streets with the children and protested that they couldn’t teach and learn Slovenian and so on. So afterwards our children had to be subscribed by their parents, if they wanted them to learn Slovenian. Only the oldest ones didn’t have to. But, of course, the lessons weren’t the same as the German ones. They had only a few lessons. That was another discrimination of the Carinthian Slovenes.
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interview Prohibition of Slovenian culture (Ana Zablatnik)

The resettling of the Carinthian Slovenes. With the occupation of Yugoslavia they already transferred our parishes into German parishes. Then we weren’t even allowed to sing Slovenian in church. We had an inn, and there we had to hang up posters: “Carinthians speak German!” There you always had to look out who was at the inn – as there were spies around and again – whether you spoke Slovenian or German. Of course, ... more
length: 1:05 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 210
interview Ana´s tasks in the resistance group (Ana Zablatnik)

You always took different things with you at that time.
My family knew everything. They knew everything at home. The other ones were illegal, as well, really. I was the only one, who had a connection to the partisans and the resistance group. We took on different tasks: mail, messenger service, food (that was important, too), clothes, and a very important thing: medical supplies. They were important, because ... more
length: 0:49 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 164
interview Life in fear (Ana Zablatnik)

They were very frightened – of course. They heard when there was one caught and another one… And we always thought: ‘hopefully that won’t happen to us’ – well. Everybody was living with fear at this time; at home, as well. They did not know what was going to happen. In our family: my brother fell in 1942 in Russia, 1943 they enlisted the second brother, 1944 I was arrested, and in January 1945 my other brother ... more
length: 1:01 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 1.062
interview First partisan action in the village (Ana Zablatnik)

A group of partisans, about 20 of them (a few were with us as well) went to the constabulary, the office, and the town hall and took things from everywhere; whatever they could do with. At the constabulary they seized weapons – wherever they found some – and the type writers and stationery. For us it was like this: the country constables were having their evening meal and unfortunately one was shot there, because ... more
length: 1:43 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 142
interview Wish to join partisans, being arrested (Ana Zablatnik)

I planned to join the partisans myself, if they hadn’t arrested me. I had already got two pairs of trousers made and a windbreaker. And then I wanted to go to the unit. But unfortunately it turned out differently. I was really confident: I would join the resistance, even the armed resistance – yes. But it did not happen, because we were arrested - well. You were still proud of contributing so much. – At ... more
length: 1:46 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 104
interview Horrors that her husband saw (Ana Zablatnik)

Well, actually it is hard to talk about it now and to remember everything; there are so many things. It was not easy to run around at night. You always had to look out; always make sure that nobody saw you and that you managed and so on. Or the boys, who stayed at home, were always in fear of being summarily executed. All the members of the armed forces, who stayed at home, were summarily executed. Everybody ... more
length: 1:59 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 1.678
interview Her husband, a deserter (Ana Zablatnik)

My later husband was a deserter, as well. He was on holiday and was at home in July 44. Instead of going back, he said good bye and went to Klagenfurt. There he didn’t board the train, but went to a neighbour’s, that night, where another one (who stayed at home, away from the ‘Wehrmacht’, as well) already was. They made a bunker for them and that was where they stayed until January 1945. He was in the resistance, ... more
length: 0:52 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 450
interview Under arrest; end of the war (Ana Zablatnik)

They knocked hard on the door on the 5th May at 11 o’clock in the evening: “Open up, open up!” And the father asked: “What’s wrong?” – well – “open up!” So he opened and they asked where I was. I was lying in the living room, but I heard everything. Then two or three came in and shouted: “Get up!” “What’s wrong?” I asked – well. “Get up and you will see then what’s going to happen.” Of course I got up then. And ... more
length: 7:34 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 337
interview Horrible conditions in prison (Ana Zablatnik)

Around 40 to 45 women were in one cell with 10 beds. The others had to sleep next to them, or three in one bed, or on the floor, no matter where. Well, we were so many. We only had one pot for the loo, and in the morning there was everything in there, and you can imagine what it looked like then. Nobody brought in different straw mattresses – well. With the food it was just the same. In the morning it was a thin ... more
length: 1:15 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 1.599
interview In prison (Ana Zablatnik)

I was in prison as well. There was a raid. Somebody had said – that was at the end of October – we were having contacts. But there really was something. Once there was one, she was imprisoned as well, she always said: “If something happens, would you want to come with us?” so I asked: “Well, what’s going on? - Yes.” - “You will see. “ - “Sure”. Something was given away, allegedly. There were two supervisors that ... more
length: 2:33 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 205
interview Immediately after the war (Ana Zablatnik)

Well, after the war it happened to be that the partisans came to Ludmannsdorf on the 10th May after they had been in Klagenfurt and everywhere before. They billeted at Boris’, where the police, the constabulary had been, and we got the order to provide some food. All of a sudden there was enough food there. One had brought a piglet, another one brought five hens, another one brought – I don’t know how much – ... more
length: 2:11 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 381
interview Discrimination of Slovenes after war (Ana Zablatnik)

You always hat to stick up for yourself and you were never accepted. At the inn you were laughed at or reviled as a betrayer of your home country. My father was playing music at the neighbour’s, when somebody took his trombone and broke it. Then he said: “Go home to Laibach or wherever you belong.” Things like that happened quite often. Or once, when we were at the inn, some youngsters came, about 16-17 years ... more
length: 4:51 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 113
interview conclusion (Ana Zablatnik)

I don’t know, whether today’s youth can imagine this situation. The war had been going on for five years already, more and more were killed, it got worse and worse. There was no real future for us. But that – it seems to me – made you stronger to go into this resistance and help wherever you could.
length: 0:40 min  | date: 16.06.2008  | video-hits: 96
  
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Prohibition of Slovenian culture (Ana Zablatnik)
Ana´s tasks in the resistance group (Ana Zablatnik)
Life in fear (Ana Zablatnik)
First partisan action in the village (Ana Zablatnik)
Wish to join partisans, being arrested (Ana Zablatnik)
Horrors that her husband saw (Ana Zablatnik)
Her husband, a deserter (Ana Zablatnik)
Under arrest; end of the war (Ana Zablatnik)
Horrible conditions in prison (Ana Zablatnik)
In prison (Ana Zablatnik)
Immediately after the war (Ana Zablatnik)
Discrimination of Slovenes after war (Ana Zablatnik)
conclusion (Ana Zablatnik)

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