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We slept on trees like these or thinner ones. We covered them with soil and leaves.
We had a kitchen here in the middle.
So how did we cook? We made pyres of wood and placed the pails around them.
We slept here in the shelters. We had a hospital here.
The hospital looked like something for horses with stalls, women laid here, it was a very small hospital.
We were the principal fighting unit.
Maybe you're interested in the role of women.
There were a few women, one of them who spoke was here and helped.
There was a nurse here with us who was a woman.
There were two young women who would go to the city, to be in contact with the city.
When we watch the film Zelda Treger was mentioned, a very heroic woman
By the way I used to sleep right next to her.
The wife of Abba Kovner, the comander her was Abba Kovner
His wife, Vita Kempner, who is still alive in Israel on a Kibbutz, was very tall and pretty.
She didn't look like a Jew, she also went to the city a lot.
Eliot: Anyone need to be sprayed?
Fania: I say that they have pity for us today because last time we were all doing gymnastics to fight them off.
We used to go on missions at night. We would sleep by day in a barn or somewhere else ( that was available)
We were in a shtetl a week ago. There was a man from that shtetl who knew the roads very well.
He was a smuggler. He would steal himself across the border from Poland into Lithuania
And because of that he knew the roads really well.
He also knew the surrounding people.
That was very important.
I can tell you that I went on one mission with him
This was the 24th of December, just before Christmas.
There were five of us and one of his acquintances learned that there was a woman among us.
And he invited me to the table (to the meal).
Do you understand? Nitl is (Eng: Christmas)
Although it was a wonderful meal, I don't remember it. I just remember that there were white tablecloths.
After being in the ghetto,
It was probably a very fine meal, we were very hungry.
We would get food from farmers. We would attack German supply houses, garrisons.
We didn't have proper food. We made what we called "balande", this was flour with hot water.
But occasionaly we'd get a little sheep fat, but with no salt.
(Joking tone) If someone among us had a little salt or sugar, a fight could break out and someone could be killed
You saw Mordkhe Shames in the film, about whom there's a lot to be said.