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- Warwickshire Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards
- People in story:听
- Eda Evans nee Kramar
- Location of story:听
- Slovenja
- Background to story:听
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:听
- A4085561
- Contributed on:听
- 18 May 2005
When I was a small child, in Slovenja, I remember that on many occasions my mother was taken away by the local fascist blackshirts. Sometimes she was away for hours, sometimes days and once for many weeks. When she returned she would have bruises and on one occasion they knocked out all her teeth. They came for my mother because she was involved in the partisans and there were spies in the village.
In the next village they brought all the men to our village and shot them in front of us. They were shot on a little wall; some fell forward and some backwards into the ravine. The last man had to throw the remaining bodies into the ravine.
Soldiers would come and sit outside our houses and not let anyone in or out. We were terrified of both the Germans and the Italians.
My father was away in Germany and I did not see him until I was 15.
The war created divisions in the family, which have lasted until this day and ruined our community completely.
I was only seven years old at the end of the war.
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