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What did the partisans do? They really made it impossible for the German army to move. We cut down trees and blockaded the roads. We put...we mined the entrances to where, where the resisters lived and this was called an...the units where they lived. They cut down telephone wires and they made ambushes at times. Dynamiting the roads, and dynamiting also trains that went to the front. And in the very same token, we helped Jews that were hiding in the woods, because they were Jewish. Young children and also elderly people, women that escaped, one in a family that ran out of a ghetto that was either burning or everybody was being killed, and quite a few children. I mean not in large numbers, no. And we saw... They lived at first almost like wild, running from place to place and hiding and never having enough food. Some of them even died. But when we came in into the forest we made sure that the farmers keep them and they watch over them for their safety. Because we threatened the farmers--if something will happen to their safety, that you will be punished and punished severely. And you'd be surprised, they listened. Because they knew that we were, we had power.
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