Marie Čálková

"We went to look out the window and suddenly we see that there is a long freight train, that the doors are opening and that the carriages are full of prisoners in spotted trousers. So he says, `Jesus, they're moving the concentration camps!` And they stopped there. Then they went to the main station, but this was Bubny, Holešovice. We thought they were just going to stand there, but they started to open the doors. The Germans who were guarding them with flintlocks let them jump out of the carriages. It seemed to me at the time that they let them air out, or whatever they were going to do with them. We didn't know. Neither she [a supervisor from work] knew, nor did I know. I wouldn't have dared, but she was so brave, she wasn't afraid to give him [the manager] her opinion or anything. She, when she saw it, she was like, `Come and see if there are any bags in here,' and she started pulling it out of the pantry. That was her action, her idea, I wouldn't have dared to do that then. When she did it, I helped her. We took what we found, some bags, some sacks, to make it worthwhile. Actually, his [the director's] pantry, what we could fit in the bags, we put in there and carried it to the fence. We couldn't go any further, but they could go up to the fence, and they would jump over those rails and run to the fence and we would pass [the food] over those rails. Their guards left them - they had their guards there, they had soldiers with flintlocks guarding them, but they left them so they could take it."