Dagmar Nebeská, roz. Poláčková

“...Rahm was his name, he had two German shepherds close to him, was wearing high boots, holding a small whip and was shouting at me in German: 'What do you want here?!' And I told him that I should take some letters upstairs and he shouted at me: Go out! So, I went out, back to the barracks. So, we awaited what would happen and at ten o´clock in the evening people brought narrow pieces of paper to the barracks and there was a number of the transport on the paper and they went to the transport. And I did not get the little piece of paper, I stayed there as the only one from the whole room and nineteen of us lived there. So when everybody left and I stayed there as the only one, I was walking through the empty Terezín and four of us met there, three other young women, so we said to each other that we would go somewhere else, to a different barrack and a different room and that we would live together.”

“There was self-government and because everything was in German, it was called Ältestenrat which meant Council of Elders. But to be honest it was there only to keep Ghetto functioning and in order. It may be truth that the superiors got orders from the SS men, but I do not know if they met with them. The truth is that all of them left but only in the last transport. Meanwhile, there were of course other transports, but I am talking about the October one because it was the last one.”