Anka 80
There was one event, on 10th of April when Yugoslavia was attacked. It was announced; even though there were no media then that we had to run to the forest, to the fields. We escaped, my mother with my two elder brothers, 7 and 5 and me, two months old. We went to the forest and Bura was blowing hard, they say it was never like that. There was a little stone house there and women with children took turns to be there. My mother didn´t have time to take blankets and clothes and I started to freeze, turned blue, they thought I was dead. She held me for two days, we couldn´t go back home. An old woman our neighbor had a woolen scarf and she said, Luce, maybe Anka is not dead yet.
I´m old, let me die, let´s rub her with this woolen scarf. And I started to cry. They were waiting for me back home to bury me. That´s a terrible memory.
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