Hana Vondrášková

"Then at the year 1968 they invited us. Mauthausen was somewhere separate and Ravensbrück also separately and in some big restaurant. And there came all those women, and they were from England and France, and everywhere possible. And I was sitting at a table with a photo of my mother. I looked at each lady, because in my confused little head I thought, maybe I'd see her, possibly… Well, I thought nonsense completely. But it so happened that a lady came to me and told me, you are Marenka Kontová. And she said that she knew my mother and that they took the train together and the train from Ravensbrück, the soldiers went with them and the train always ran a short distance and stopped and the soldiers jumped out and adjusted it, because there was something over the rails, some kind of danger that it would no longer be possible to drive. And it took an hour or two maybe, and we kept waiting for it to be fixed so that we could move on. And they were already approaching Ostrava, but were still in Poland. Well, they also went to the toilet and stuff, but as it stopped again, my moth said she couldn't stand it and said she was going to the trees, there were some shrubs there, three trees and shrubs, and she ran there, just went. Well, coincidentally, the train started running right away. Well, they stomped and shouted, and no one stopped it, bad luck. So they took her bag and threw it out the window. They shouted, but nothing happened. That is what she told me."

"And it was close to Orlík, and there it just happened that a certain, I don't know the name anymore, so he reported it to the gendarmes. He made a visit at the police station reporting to the gendarmes that a man who was unknown had appeared there, so it was already known that they had landed there, that they had jumped down there. So, they started surveying the surroundings, but we were still quite far away. But suddenly a gendarme from Chraštice, from the local gendarme station, started walking around our house often, and my grandmother became terribly afraid and told me, to call her quickly, when I see him. Well, Grandma always went to the gendarme, I remember, and brought him eggs or a present. And what are you doing here, she asked, and he said, but that's how we inspect the villages here, my task is to walk around here. And he said goodbye nicely again, but it was just obvious that they were watching us a bit."