Eva Houdková

"And when I crossed the road there was such a sharp turn, all of a sudden I heard a terrible breaking of three cars - I could count it - and as I went to the shop it was three steps, so the shop keeper grabbed me and took me in. As when he came out, he found out that the noise was done by the gestapo cars, that they stopped by a doctor who was across the road opposite to the shop, and that they were pulling out my daddy out of the car. Not only daddy, but also some German. So he took me to the store so I could not see my dad because I would recognize him, and if I called him, the whole family may be take in there."

"Well, then they came to those, who were in the commissions, yeah, and in our apartment there were two sealed lockers. So, one of them says, "Come on, ma'am, come see what's here, yeah, and then you'll sign it." And my mom says, "All right then." But then she noticed this was put here and that was there, yeah, in the luggage. And again. And he said, "Well, let us sign it now!" My mother sayd, "Well, no, no! Look, you were supposed to move it from one case to another. I'm not going to sign it. 'Well, because she saw what they wanted to do!'