Věra Egermayerová

"When I arrived there was ash in the air, bits of ash flying everywhere. I used to look at it as a child and then I found out there was a crematorium. They didn't burn living people there, they burned corpses because they didn't have room to bury them anymore. That's how I remember the ashes being in the air. And another memory - there were these wagons that were being pulled by people. I think there was food, maybe some corpses. The wagons seemed unusual to me, and the fact that people were pulling them."

"He was stubborn, what he wanted to do he did because he kept going for it. He didn't know, he didn't understand the breadth of what he did until it was publicized. Then he had his fame from the age of 80. I knew his children, his grandchildren. He was a man who didn't give up. Marginally, he might have cheated somewhere to achieve something - he wanted to save lives, of course. If I have to say something private - he loved to drive. His family wouldn't let him do it then, he was almost 100 years old, so he had to give it up. We had lunch and he had everything planned - where we were going, where we were going to sit, where the toilets were. And he was driving and he loved it. He lived in Maidenhead and he had medals from all over the world. He was humble, he didn't give up and then he got the glory out of it."