A Radio Transmitter for Partisans

Before the Slovak National Uprising broke out, two division of the so called First Slovak Republic army were placed between the villages of Habura and Čertižné. After the uprising broke out, these two divisions fled in all directions and left all their equipment, including a radio transmitter, behind. Pavel Dimun, a native of Habura who directly participated in the war both as a partisan and a soldier, did not want to permit that such a valuable thing as a radio transmitter would end up in German hands so he secured it. “I took it and hid it in the granary. Then I informed one Slovak from Habura. I told him: ‘Pavel, this is a good radio transmitter, but we would need a dynamo. We do not have one, though.’” Shortly after that the partisans found out about it. “We gave it to sergeant Dědina, also a Habura native. He was a member of the partisan unit led by Kukureli; they operated in the area of Prešov. So one other partisan and me took the radio transmitter and brought it all the way to the village of Driečna. Sergeant Dědina promised that they would take care of it. And that is how we left the partisans.”