The Six Escapes - Finding Lost Civilizations

There were stories that many newly bornbabies had been found buried around thecastle after the Trappists left. In 1968 thiscastle was altered into today's museume.g., the interrogation room is now aRomanesque chapel.On my visits in 1999 and 2002, I had topay an entry fee, but at half price, after Itold the kind, sympathetic young lady of myimprisonment here.In mid-August, I and some 20 otherSlovenian prisoners were loaded onto acavernous, covered truck, and driven forsome two hours until we made a stop atsome village restaurant where the guardstook refreshment. One of our eldest, a oneleggedprisoner, asked for water. Theguard hit him twice with the club. With tearsin his eyes, he said to the guard, “I lost myleg during the war fighting against Nazisbefore you were born.“ It was a hotsummer day and we were all dying of thirstbut nobody dared to ask for water afterthat. We continued for another hour. Wemade another stop; I think it was in the cityof Celje. We were all guessing since wecould not see out at all. Here some 15prisoners were taken off the truck. Nowonly five of us were transferred into a smallvan without windows or seats. By sundownwe were on our way — thirsty, hot, andhungry, we arrived what we assumed to beMaribor. I thought it was Partizanska Road.Here they stopped; the guards got out ofthe van and disappeared. We were left forat least an hour in a steamy hot van,dehydrated, airless and suffocating. We allconcluded that, for all they cared we might