Alena Burianová

“First we ran from Prague from Germans, so that we would not get to any kind of trouble, and with the end of war we ran from Mokrovraty back to Prague as our house was standing alone near the forest and our brothers, the Russian soldiers, moved in around us. As we had a well, they tore pieces of wood from our fence off and used to feed their horses to our house. They even dragged my mother our and we had to run from there, as eve in Hraštice, which is a station nearby, an old lady came to a very bad end, and actually she was Russian living here for a long time. So in fact we were moving around the country all the time.”

“We took a speed train and the gestapo guys were on too and as the train stumbled, my father simply touched a German woman by accident and there was so much ado about it as they started to urge him to apologize. While my man, no of course my father... he was crazy patriotic and said he would only speak the way he can and will apologize in Czech and that is why he was transported to Theresiestadt. In three weeks we came back from canoeing down the river, as we always spent our holidays that way, and they came to arrest him to place him in Theresiestadt to the Small fortress. And as my mother used to live in Vršovice long time ago and there she had a real good friend, who still was here after war and she was dating a gestapo man of a high rank and he managed to get my father out of there in two years.”