Eh, so, uh...

My war experiences were partly happened in a territory which was

Occupied by HungarianAnd we escaped from Hungary to Slovakia, uh

Because it was easier to hide

In this, uh, in this Slovak state

Which was a puppet, uh, government of the German Nazis

Now so, uh, for a while, we were, uh, living under false

These false documents, but then in uh, in 1944, in August

Uh, the Slovaks started a revolution against Germans

And I got involved

First by helping to, uh, carry or to load

Weapons and, uh... ammunitions

And after that I got, uh...

I got enrolled for a so-called "partisan unit"

Which was fighting the Germans

And this was... and this was an uprising that started in August

But then when finally the Germans defeated the Slovak uprising

And so we had to retreat to the mountains

And this was at the beginning of the winter

And I had spent, uh... November, December, January, February, uh

And early March in the mountains

With this partisan unit

And around then, uh, it happened that I was, I-I, uh...

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A territory which was already liberated

So, this is about a very short period, very

Uh, of course this is a very important, a very short

Uh, actually, I′m telling you what happened

Uh so, of course there were very many traumatic issues

No, this did not happen, we always knew exactly what, what

What is the date

What is the day, and month

This is uh, because we were, of course, uh...

Listening to the radio

We-we knew what is the date, and we knew how it had developed

How the war is developing

We would listen in to London

The BBC, the British Broadcasting Cooperation

This was the most reliable cooperation

And we always kept Moscow transmissions, but uh

It was not as clean and reliable as the British broadcasting

Well uh, the most terrifying news was that in December, 1944

The Germans had still enough forces

That they started an attack on American, uh, units

Which were already on the border of Germany, in uh...

It was in the, on the border of France and Germany

They still had enough power to

Launch an, an attack on the American, uh, army

So this was pretty terrifying, that

It means that they are still strong enough that

The war can continue maybe a few months

And it was at the very end of uh, our exhaustion

Exhaustion, our food, our ammunition, everything

So this was uh... this was quite present, uh

For more or less the bad news

We were quite... we were quite depressed

Because it meant that

We had to count on a long, uh, long uh, war

Going on still, and deeply in 1945, when we were out of everything

Of food and ammunition

And we had to stay in a very isolated place

In which we were camping, uh

In the Slovakia, in the winter

Although this was a temporary thing

Uh, we, really, our only hope

(Obscured)

Was that the Germans would be defeated

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What happened back then does not change how I will live my life, no

Dedicated to George Fodor (Děda)