He said, you better leave my girlfriend alone
Stáhnout obrázek
Erika Weissová, née Šustrová, was born on August 22, 1930 in Saská Kamenice. She came from a mixed marriage, her father was Czech and her mother German. Together with her parents, sister and a brother she grew up in a large industrial town of Saská Kamenice (Chemnitz in German). Following a large bombing in spring 1945 her family was forced to flee to Kadaň to their relatives. In 1947 she met her future husband Chajeme Weiss. Nine years older Chajem came from Carpathian Ruthenia and during was in a concentration camp. After returning to Kadaň he met Erika, who could only speak German. At the time Ms. Erika didnt work, but cared for her ill mother, who undergone a stomach operation still in Germany (probably in December 1944). Her sister was a seamstress and her brother worked in Germany as a car mechanic. At the age of eighteen the witness got pregnant and had to get married. Together with her husband she raised three children. She had 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. In 1994 Czech Union of Freedom Fighters in Kadan awarded Mrs. Erika Weiss a badge of honour for meritorious functionary activity in the Czech Union of Antifascist Fighters. The witness died in June 2016.
