We got treated very well till 1945 began when the Germans took over the village. They took over the school to store their ammunitions we had to stop going to school.
   I had a wee job for two ladies. I did washing dishes, ironing and shopping. At night I did baby sitting for a family who had a shop. They paid me with groceries, sugar, salt and spaghetti.
   In wartime times were hard and we had to use tokens because the things in the shops were rationed. We had to have the ration books for everything. We got them from the council. If we had a lot of money we could buy all our groceries on the black market.
   Night-time one German soldier with a machine gun kept firing all night. We had to have no light showing in the windows through the night and no noise. Every night at 6pm we were not allowed on the street. It was a curfew.
   Every night the sky was full of planes and they kept bombing all night. We had to get out of the house. We ran into the field all half-dressed till the bomb stopped. The sky looked like a hrework.
   We went visiting friends. At a place called Vo, one of the sergeants got shot. The Germans blamed three boys. They arrested them. The Germans didn't care whether they were innocent or guilty after arresting them midweek. They waited until Sunday when all people came out of the church after the morning mass they rounded up all the people and made us watch while they hanged them from the trees.
   They kept them hanged for a week there to make the people see them. They let their parents bury them. After we left Vo we went to visit my grandparents at a placed named Grancona. The partisan troops accused seven boys of spying for the fascists. They kidnapped them and took them to the small church where they were tortured. After they were tortured they were then all shot.
   The next morning a man was passing by, he heard crying he went in the church and saw all the tortured boys. One was still alive he managed to tell them everything. Then he died. After the war ended they built a monument. They called it the Seven Martyrs of Grancona.
    In a place called Zivo the Germans started a fire at the sugar warehouse. My cousin and I skived off school to get same sugar when we araved there the warehouse was burned they was running down the hill. When we went back home we took another route on the motorway then we find a nest full of eggs. When we went home we got smacked from my mother and from the teacher. When we went back home we took another route. At the motorway there were a lot of tanks because the war was nearly over, at the other site of the road there were a lot dead soldiers beside the river all the kids including myself used to look in their pockets but we didn't find anything. Hitler used to make a speech that he would fight to the last drop of blood, but in the end he had to surrender in l945. Because he didn't have any soldiers or ammunition left to fight with any more. When the war ended we had a big celebration when all the Germans left and the allies came in.
   When the war ended in May 1945 all the women who had affair with German soldiers were made to sweep the streets because they were married and their husbands were prisoners of war in South Africa.
   My mother use to write to the Red Cross to find out any information about my father and my brother who never heard from them for about two years.