Božena Chrobáková

"The Gutmanns, the ones meanwhile, I don't know if in the forty-second year, were ordered to the transport. So they came to us to say goodbye. It was terribly sad, everybody was crying. Even the men who were leaving were crying. And then the next day I saw them walking through that yard, carrying their luggage. And that was the last time I saw them. After that, there was just an announcement. First the old ones died, in Terezín. And then the sons died. The last one tragically, in Auschwitz, only sometime in March before the end of the war."

"When the Germans came and threw the Jews out of their beautiful flats, they moved in themselves, into their furniture, into their furnishings, everything that was there was theirs. And they moved the Jews into the warehouses. Because it was a wholesale store, so they had - there were still two such old tract houses in the back, and in that one tract like this in the river, that's where our apartment was, and in the other ones there were such auxiliary rooms and storage rooms and things like that. Well, and they just moved the Jews first from that apartment there to those in our complete vicinity. Well, and dad was - because he was a decent man and he just couldn't watch it and he offered to help them. They took advantage of that, really, they hid some things, they hid food with us."