The successful escape of Valentina Lasmanes
A biographical story written by Valentina Lasmanes about how she managed to escape from detention during the German occupation
"The news came that I was going to be arrested. And then Ginter told me: "Valentín, you have to leave. You can knock us down if you are arrested". Aha, well, I started to think. Ginter had ordered some guys to look after my apartment on Lauku Street. The apartment was located in such a second house in the yard. The first house was on the street, then there was a yard, then the second house. There is a garden in front of the house. Some people were on duty in that garden. One evening, when I got home, I ordered potatoes to be baked in the oven. And suddenly Frischenfeld runs in and says: "Take your stuff!" And, I grab the bag, and he drags me across the room, pushes the window open, me out through the window, and he himself - boom! – in the field. And there in those bushes was a motorcycle stuffed inside. Then on top of the motorcycle and pulled out".
We didn't go to Sweden to become Swedes / Zin. ed. B. Bell. Riga: Zinātne, 2010, p. 208.
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