Ingrid Doležalová

"Then in Liberec, [my father] still had his parents, they helped my mother a lot, and in Jablonec he had a brother - he had a big confectionery, a workshop and a shop. He was also German, and he was also deported. And I remember, like today, when they were moved with the pram - he had a daughter - they were also moved to the camp with grandma and grandpa. My mother and I used to follow them, and we always waited to see which carriage they were going to take. I remember that. And then, when they were sent away, they all - my grandfather and grandmother and the brother - went to Schkopau near Merseburg. I don't know how that's possible, that was East Germany, but they got to the same place, which was probably good. And my father was in Russia. I don't know how it happened, so then he got to Germany to see them."

"I remember when the Russians came. The first wave, I think it was the first wave, was terrible because I remember they went after women. So my mother was hiding from them in the bushes in the garden. And me and my sister were in the bedroom hiding. But it didn't last long, I remember that. But then the others came and they had a post office in our flat in Pavlovice. They lived with us normally. And they were good. Across the street from our building, Russians lived there too, and they had a kitchen. So we had food from them, so they weren't all bad."