Mila 101
The war certainly changed my life. When I came home and saw people pulling and dragging wires inside the house. They said, "We've already seen the apartment. Five officers will come here now, you can make five beds for them, and you're not allowed to take anything out. Nothing. Only what you're wearing." And in the afternoon, the next day, I came and said, "You know what, I'm not asking for anything else, but give me some laundry. You won't wear my underwear." So he said, "Okay, you can take that." And everything else was left in the apartment. When I was alone in the forest for the first time, then I said, "Let's see you now. In Tuzla, you were a protected, nobody could touch you. Now here in the forest where you have no one and nothing., let's see how you'll manage." And I did, not only me but also my mother, for whom I said she was the last Austro-Hungarian lady who couldn't find her way around at all. She stood there, and waited to see what will happen. I carried her with me for two years, pulled her, fed her, everything
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