Anna Paličková

"The floors and everything were ripped up, ripped out, because the gold diggers who were looking for gold after the Germans were already there before us. We actually came into a ruined house. What could be taken away was gone, because what the Germans had taken was just something into the suitcase. Everything there was bad. It was a small house, just a kitchen and three small rooms. There was no bathroom toilet was in the yard, but there was a field all around. The house was right next to the forest. We were shoved in there."

"We always made a fire when we came to work in the morning, even though it was August at the time, in case someone wanted to heat up a sausage. There were four of us girls, well, one woman had two boys in the army already. Suddenly we were surrounded by soldiers with loaded guns. Two Poles, two Russians and one had some other uniform. Now we were accused of being spies. They were aiming at us. I was pregnant and I was sick and this one had two boys in the army. That was quite a situation. We explained in vain that we belonged to the Javorník plant and that we had a forest in Černá Voda, and that they should call there and ask, that we were not spies. It took maybe two hours."