Roman Gronský

"My grandfather died in Terezín after only three months, my grandmother died after a year and a quarter in Terezín, which is absolutely unbelievable, because she was well over 60 years old, after giving birth to seven children, she was transported to Auschwitz, to Auschwitz, where she probably found herself as a governess in the BIIb family camp. And on that crazy night of 8-9 March, when 3962 [3792] Czech Jews were murdered, she was one of them. So she still lived in Auschwitz for half a year. And that's where her life ended. Her ashes, of course, were scattered somewhere in the river, like those of most of her other relatives..."

"In 1941, Jews were obliged to wear the yellow star, they had to have it sewn on. And at that time my father's parents lived in Olomouc. With their eldest daughter and her son. From another family, my grandmother's sister lived there with her husband, her daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter. They lived in the Lower Square. However, the gears of the occupation machine kept turning faster and faster, so that none of them escaped transport. So the transport took the whole family to Terezín. Not everybody knows that the assembly point of the Olomouc Jews was at the Hálek school, near the train station. Only recently such the memorial stone was placed in front of the entrance to the school. Many people know the so-called Stolpersteine, Stones of the Disappeared, which are laid in many places and cities in Europe. Olomouc was also one of the first towns in the country where these stones were laid to commemorate those who were murdered by the Nazis - murdered - and of course they have no memorial anywhere so that someone can put a stone there, as is the Jewish custom, for example."