Nerina Rakić

„Were there any contacts with the partisans.“ „Yes, I went to one lady to take the goods. At my aunt's mom, that famous one from Pula, that sell shirts and joined the partisans later. They sent me there, I was in Vintijan to take her goods and then returned to Valdebek to give....the older ones were dealing with the partisans.“ „You knew that you were going to take the goods for the partisans'“ „Yes, yes, yes.“ „Who sent you?“ „One of them, from the Committee.“ „There was a Commitee, could these people be recognized?“ „It could be seen who it was. Later when I was i charge for flags. Flags were in that house..there was mulberry, now that's the name of the street, because a mulberry used to be there. There on the attic was a room where sewing took place. We were sewing flags. They gave me the American flag, with all those stars to glue and sew. (laughing) We did it by using sewing machines. I was 16 years old, in 1944. There were several of us, we never went together but one by one. I came downstairs and saw three Germans. I was minding my own business they looked at me and nothing. Nevertheless they would come to check, as if they had heard something. They didn't know where what was. You were more afraid from the fascists because that was familiar to them. Fascists lived here, so they know. It went well, there were five, six of us.“

„It was on January 3rd. We arrived in the morning. Alarm. Up there was no forrest, to go to Monte Ghiro, there was no forrest. There was a little forrest near the mill, little trees. I remember who it was organized, people who deat with it, who knew who we were. They had told us to arrive at ten o'clock, to be there, ten we will wait because cockroaches will come...cockroaches were fascist policemen, they wore black, truck will come to take mill's goods which was important for common people. Everyone was there, waiting for the moment. Whostarted it, to tell you the truth, we were walking up and down and everything was full. Suddenly someone said: „Chaaaarge!“ One was already dead. I saw it, my boyfriend was wounded there, in his leg, he was in a hospital, and two fingers, later when we married he could wear his wedding ring. You know what they had?They showed it to us, in case something happens, they had bottles filled with carburettor liquid?We had at home, we didn't have light, in Valdebek, powder would be put inside, and water like an aluminum bottle. We watched it. They were willing to throw it because they had no weapons. Three dead. I don't know how many wounded. One woman, who worked with me, was screaming something. I could see my boyfriend being carried to me. You could only see the dust. I ran downstairs to railway station. On stairs...I saw there on a pool table was Lussi. Dead, a tall man i was. My husband, my boyfriend took him in a hospital.“