Jarmila Jelínková

"Just as the Jews were leaving, for example from Breclav. So I know that they came - they just arrived in front of the house where they lived. The Germans, they knew that. That was in the years forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, then the Jews didn't live there anymore - so they came, either it was a car, a truck, or it was some big... some van. And they just arrived in front of the house, called the family, usually there was just the mother and the children, sometimes an older man was there. Again, the men were away somewhere, they were in the war, even the Jewish men were in the war. Or there were actually Jewish-Czech families, there [people] were marrying each other a lot, so it wasn't just the pure Jews. So they just put them in the vehicle and took them away, probably to Poland or to Terezin, I don't know where. I was at one of the transports. My mother was also going there to work, and I helped her then, or I was just there with her. And I know that they got there, that was in the forty-third year, in the autumn, when I was with her. So they just arrived there and picked them up and took them."

"A sixteen-year-old boy was killed when the Germans were leaving. He was a young soldier, there were more of them. But the boy just wasn't fast enough and they shot him, from that distance. And I know he was only wounded, but he died, the same day. And he was calling, 'Mutti, Mutti, Mutti!' I just had it for an awful long time... We were friends with them, we used to go there, so it was in the street, so even with the bigger guys, like we knew the soldiers. So it was kind of a sad ending and beginning. The end of the Germans, they all left then. They left that boy there, that soldier. So then, the next day, we buried him. And we were there. We were at the funeral. Where he died, they just made a hole and just left him there."