Alžběta Blahutová

„My sister wanted to get married as she was having a baby with a Polish soldier. Her birth certificate was at the Javorník registry office. Daddy made arrangements and a fifteen year-old brother went to her to bring necessary documents. She was feeling sad so kept him there for three weeks. Sadly the Polish came and he could not return back. He lived there for some time after that and then the Polish displaced him to Germany. It was all possible during Hitler´s period, so my sister got married to a deceased soldier near a photograph wearing a black dress.“

„We were also supposed to get displaced. My dad was an apprenticeship cutler and made handles and knobs of real antlers for hunters. Three times the displacement commissioner came to us to get ready and march in a week or so to Germany. The date was approaching and we were waiting for someone to come as there was no car in Růženec. People were first transported to collection camp in Mikulovice. Suddenly they came and ordered us to unpack our stuff, as we were not going anywhere. The forestry made rebuked for our father and saw that we were quite small children. Mummy had health issues with her eyes, which I later inherited.“