Myra Zelinková

"I remember it was autumn, I had plaid dresses, the first dresses, I went to play with them, you can't do it, and I played and I came to the room and there was a mother crying in the corner, on the left side was small, fat male in a leather hat, in a leather coat, next to a tall one. I said to her, 'Mom, mom!' I will start crying, as now I can see it in front of my eyes. And I got a crazy slap, I flew all over the room like that, it was a one-man room. So I recovered, flew again, shouted ´Mom! ’ again and got another slap. Then I remember flying around, then I remember my mother crying terribly and comforting me and that everything hurt. I don't know more."

"Suddenly I was sitting and astonished, because I have not experienced so many children yet, I was still among the adults. And suddenly the door opened, the headmaster came in with someone else, and they whispered something. Suddenly he said, 'Get up!' So I got up. ´Out! ’And the lady who put me in there again said, ´Myrinka, come on.’ And I found around 1990, her daughter told me that mother was supposed to take me somewhere. She didn't take me there and took me to hers. They had a villa and there I was hidden in a room and I was not allowed to go out at all."

"My grandmother told me, 'If you're nice, I won't go to the transport.' Then I remember waking up at home alone, my father working at Bata in Zlín, but traveling a lot. So I was alone, so I realize, and that my mother came, it was cold, and she cried terribly, and I said, 'And where's Grandma?' - 'She went to the transport. She went to Terezín. ‘Well, I just to add, there was an invitation - departure to Auschwitz in a week. And there they went straight from the ramp to the gas. It was seven in ten minutes, the Germans were so precise that they wrote down the date and how many people went and at what time. This was found out after the war, it can be found in your Yad, this is the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem."