Author Description

I was born to Ur ka (Stenovec) and Janez Zupan on Valentine's Day 1930, in the industrial town of Jesenice, nestled in a narrow valley in the northwestern part of Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Our family consisted of two older sisters, Milka (born 1923) and Vera (1927), and three younger siblings, brother Jo e (1934), sister Marija (1935), and brother Riko (1941). One more child was stillborn in 1948.