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Shkruar nga Afrim Imaj Even in the moments when he was passing away, Karjolla Vencek mentioned their names, and even did not forget to stutter what he often said about them, the Albanian word "Lanet!..."
Part Three
Continued from Part One and Part Two
In the memory of those who knew her in Delvina, her rebellious outburst in difficult moments and depressive situations remained. The cries of "Germany!", "Germany!", "Deutsch!", "Deutsch!", were the constant ritual of Karjolla Vencek on the streets of the small town. "She often woke up from sleep and looked at the window shouting: I'm German!" Where are you, my Germany?!", recalls her eldest son, Hetemi. For her husband, Vehap, these were the most serious moments that forced him to intervene often without tact to remind him of the danger this attitude of hers carried for them. Yes, Karjolla had lost his self-control, he was alienated by the hardships. Those were difficult times and she could not understand the punishment they had behind explosions of this nature with "nostalgia for an enemy country of socialist Albania". Such rebellions would often make him the object of counseling, pressure and even public denunciations in the city center. She had no choice. He had lost Germany, his life, his identity, and the only way he had left was to pray, call and rebel for them! She had no way of thinking that even with these she could further stir up her own hell.
"One night he ended up in the police," says Petrit Shena, a former Security employee in the southern area. This time, the "Germany of Vehap" had crossed all borders. Stalin himself was insulted and hit, in the center of the city, in the presence of dozens of citizens. He even had a fight with a veteran there. After he spat on the bust of the leader of the Soviets at the Palace of Culture, he shouted loudly: "Stalin, who burned humanity!" An old woman immediately grabbed him by the arm and cursed him "Hitler's butt". Karjolla had collected himself and on the spot had put the sign of equality between the two. "Devil one and devil the other!" the newly mentioned Germany had said with disgust, but this time it could not be forgiven. "He got us into trouble with Stalin several times, especially the children, remembers Hetemi, her eldest son. Every time he wrapped our books, he would look at his picture and start scrawling on it "Damn Stalin who burned humanity!". He did the same thing on Hitler's photo. It terrified them both. They drove humanity crazy, he said and spat on their portraits. Thank goodness he wrote in German that he would have found us black..."
The people who were close to him say that even in the moments when Karjolla Vencek passed away, he mentioned their names, and even did not forget to stutter what he often said about them, the Albanian word "Lanet!..."
"The brothers went to the door, but they didn't tell him to meet him"
From the beginning of the 70s, her two brothers arrived in the South of Albania. After many years of searching for their sister, they had pinpointed an approximate address of her location: Sarandë district. At first they had stayed in Tirana and after contacting the official authorities of the time, they had taken the South route. "The brothers came to the gate, but they didn't tell him to meet him," recalls Petrit Shena. They were both major Bundeswehr soldiers. They had a translator and a companion with whom they had come from Tirana.
At first they settled in the tourism of Saranda. From the first inquiries, they learned that Karjolla lived somewhere in Delvina. They traveled there for several days, they persistently sought to find her home, but fate did not want them to deal with their sister and decide on her life. Before their arrival, the security specialists had done the "reconciliation" and after seeing the miserable conditions in which Delvina's Germania lived, they had decided that the guests who had arrived from afar would escort them with an unfinished mission.
Otherwise, the image of Albania, which at that time was trumpeted as the most advanced country in Europe, would be damaged. The standard answer would be given by the local authorities: There was a German woman in our town sometime after the war, but she has been gone for a long time! It was a well-known scheme in such cases that was skillfully worked out. And so it happened. The brothers, who arrived from afar, passed the corner of her hut several times, even to the gate in one case, but they were not told to meet the Karjolla they wanted and the land that raised her..."/ Pamphlet
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