00:00In summary, can you explain what happened to your family in Slovenia?
00:06Well, my family had been living a very peaceful life on a farm in the Julian Alps.
00:12Very beautiful place. The Julian Alps is where the Sound of Music was filmed.
00:18And on April 6, 1941, the Nazis invaded Slovenia and severely upended everybody's lives, including my family's.
00:27They burned books, they killed people, especially leaders and teachers.
00:33And they went as far as even chiseling epitaphs off tombstones in their attempt to completely destroy the culture.
00:41Hitler then used Slovenia as a thoroughfare to Mussolini and the fascists in Italy.
00:47Wanting to remain free, my dad and his three brothers joined the underground.
00:52And when the Nazis were finally defeated, then the communists slid into the vacuum.
00:58And took over Slovenia.
01:00My dad and uncles hid deep in the Julian Alps and in southern Austria and fought with the freedom fighters off and on for many years.
01:08Two of my uncles died during that campaign.
01:11My uncle Ludwig was shot point blank in his prison cell.
01:15My grandmother was thrown in jail because she wouldn't divulge the whereabouts of her sons.
01:20And she was raped continually for over a year by her communist guards.
01:26My grandfather was seriously injured in a communist work camp and was never the same.
01:32Somehow, my dad and uncle survived and ended up in the refugee camp where I was born.
01:38My uncle eventually brought my grandmother to Canada where he lovingly tended to her for the rest of her life.
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01:52Do you have any questions.
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01:57You can read a comment.
02:01So I was basically the one who won't be driving and traveling all the time after each other.
02:03Okay.
02:05And then I always thought, thatsembling all the time whether it's at the burning of Allah to the other side.
02:08Maybe there's something I wanted to remember because there was something I wanted to be fishing here than Q years ago.
02:12So I look forward to mylk and remember to learn exactly what it was to be here like.
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