Ivan Crnčić

"There were Germans in Punat, Krk, and Malinska. And by one accident, a ship carrying Germans ran aground. And that one... The partisans went there. The Germans were captured. And the ship... They took whatever was on the ship. And 10 trains came from Omišalj to..., to Hlap. And there... That was the most difficult night for us in the entire war, because then they disembarked at the home in Hlapa. There in the middle of Hlapa. And when they left, we took all that to the bunkers. And we couldn't fit in those bunkers. Because they were bunkers, there were two tanks, which were manholes covered with concrete. And there a box or something, piled wood and everything, on that opening. So it was not seen. And one bunker was at our president, Darko Fanuko, in his father's barn. Where there were sheep, from above and garbage. And underneath was a blanket and underneath was a pit dug and that was the bunker. The shelter where there was food and everything else was there. And that's how we did it."

"Young world, we hung out. We got along very well with everyone. That village was small, it was not a big village. There were only 25 houses. And there were about 80 of us in the village. But we were all friends, we all somehow got along, agreed, talked. We were with each other, the whole village was friendly. That is why even in the war we were united and friends and lived. And when did the war start? When did you hear that the war was starting? The war began in 1943. And then 12 young men from our village went to war. And there were 13 of us left, who worked in the village because it's in our village... The chairman of the District Committee was from our village and delegates came to him down there, everyone from Krk came there, presidents, members of the Party. And they were talking and discussing. We kept watch all night. And we, and I, went to the guard, and my friends, but we young friends never went together. Rather, they placed us with the older ones, who had already served in the army and everything. And we had two guns. And we changed those two rifles. Whoever was on guard took the rifle. And the rifles were hidden when we weren't on guard, in our barn, in the hay, they were stuck, and they were standing there."