Irena Mosslerová

"There was a little shack. We hid there because the Russians were flying in and all the vermin that had gathered there. So we hid in the shack. And they came at us, at the shack, and he with a rifle against me! Me! Jaruška was lying there, there was a broken bed, she was lying on the bed. And he said that he was going to shoot me and my mother shouted: 'No! Don't do anything to my daughter!' Terrible."

"And we poor people were afraid of... We were afraid. So we went so that... What happened to me: I was hungry. And there was bread in the ditch. I went to get the bread. It was sad, because on the way, Jaruska was getting sick. I did everything, my mother couldn't do it anymore. Then, when we got to Vienna, to the view, Jaruška and mummy couldn't do it anymore, so I pulled the cart. And I did all the work myself. They couldn't, they were so tired, and Jaruška was getting sick. She died on the way back. It was terrible."

"We started in Královo Pole, from Malátová, in the morning, it was about five o'clock. They chased us like dogs out of Malátová. They drove us out like dogs! And me and Jaruška, we... we wanted to pee. We had to look for a place, so they wouldn't do anything to us. On that Malátová, that's how it started, from that Malatova."