Marie Vegrichtová

"When the Russians showed up, so did Ukrainian nationalists. The Russians would come at daytime and Ukrainians at night. Bandera's forces were doing a lot of harm, murdering our people. Especially whenever someone stood up to them and said they wouldn't give them their property. This was not a wise thing to do, one could say goodbye to the world. We no longer even had a pig in the shed, neither cattle in the barn. All of it was taken by the Russians before they had left, and so we were left empty-handed."

"When the Germans came, we were very happy because the Russians intended to send us to Siberia. We were already on their list. They wanted to get rid of us so as to take our house and all possessions. Us girls had never quite believed it. We couldn't imagine it but our mum knew about it or overheard something. It was the time of the year when lilac is in blossom, and so she made a great bouquet and handed it over to the Germans. She was laughing and crying while at it. We thought that mummy had gone mad."