Cottage up above Horny [Upper] Jelenec where Jews hid during the war

Cottage up above Horny [Upper] Jelenec where Jews hid during the war

This is a picture of the hayloft up above Horny Jelenec, where my parents were in hiding during the war. The picture was taken between 1942 and 1944. Our mother survived, but our father died in her arms in the mountains. They were hiding in this cabin up above Horny [Upper] Jelenec. My father had diabetes, and his feet got frostbitten, he got gangrene... He's buried above Horny Jelenec; they didn't want to allow us to have him exhumed. The officials were asking fifty thousand crowns to issue the permit, and I didn't have even five thousand, much less fifty thousand. So my brother and I said to each other: 'We were both partisans, so our father will remain in the mountains!'
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