Chava Inbar

"Before I came to Bohemia – had never been in Bohemia before – I hadn't seen the house at all. I had a dream that I saw the house from within and felt what was happening outside. I knew that something bad would come from the left, from the left hand side. When I came to Slavonice and was actually in that house, I knew this was the house I dreamt about. There was this place: I saw two doors, two rooms in my dream. Now, I could see only a room without a door. Then an architect came, looked at the wall, and we saw there was a staircase and a door, but they walled it in, so there was a door. Then there was an exhibition about the arrival of the Nazis in Slavonice, and it was apparent they had come from the left, as I saw it in my dream. I didn't know what it was, I just felt it was something bad."

Chava Inbar (CI): "I felt like I was going home." Intereviewer: "You really felt you were going home?“ CI: "I didn't know whether I could find Slavonice. We had a car and went by the map, my son and I. We saw the sign Slavonice, and I started crying. I felt like... This was something that belonged here, I did not think it was that serious."

Interviewer (I): "You said your mother had been homesick?" Chava Inbar (CI): "Much." I: "Did she use to tell you about Bohemia and home?" CI: "Yes. And about the War. When I was still a child, she told me about the War, and she kept telling us that we must tell so that people don't forget what had happened."