Heidemarie Polívková

"The fact that we spoke German, that I was of German nationality, because that was determined by my father, not that anyone would have made that clear to me, but it was not desirable to speak German, I knew that. When I was a child there were still a few families here, there were quite a few families who then moved out on their own or moved out on their own. So we used to visit those families, we were friends with those families. But otherwise the origin was always there. My parents tried to keep, I have a sister, they tried to keep us out of it. I think the worst days were always the May days. Which is what my mother told me afterwards. I didn't perceive it so much because I was a child, but some things were more perceived by my parents, the way some, what all was celebrated in those May days and things. I know my parents always said that, but we wanted to keep you out of it, so we didn't talk about it at all."

"My grandmother's sister, who came with my grandmother from Šumava, got into the displacement. My grandmother married my grandfather and my sister married a German. They lived in Smržovka and because they were both German, they were included in the expulsion with their daughter. I learned this from my mother, from my parents. Otherwise, none of the relatives were included in the expulsion because they didn't live to see it. Rather, my father was deported to the interior afterwards, he had to work in the interior."