Marie Halfarová

"Our mother heard that some poor people were going there. They were thirsty, they were ragged, some were already barefoot. My mother put cut bread in her apron and went on her way. She saw the transport going. Several prisoners were going by. Most of them were Jews and they called out they were hungry and wanted water. The SS man who was leading them shouted at my mother he was would shoot her. So she hid the bread and ran home. The SS led the Jews to the forest. Some of them were staggering, weak, and when they came to the forest, the SS shot them. They rolled down the hill."

"My brother was not yet eighteen, and had to join the German army. They were taking the youngest ones. My brother enlisted, probably in Ratiboř or somewhere. From there they were sent straight to the front and never came back. He's missing to this day. They say he was with the air force. Someone told us. Well, he may have crashed his plane into the sea. To this day, we don't know what happened to him. He wasn't even eighteen years old." - "What was his name?" - "Erhard. Erhard Petrovský. A clever son. He wasn't even eighteen yet. My mother cried so much for him... She had five girls before him, and the sixth was a son."