Stories

Lidice, it always has been my home

When she objected that she could not sew, one of her Polish co-prisoners told her: “Remember, you can do anything… Never say that you do not have the skills to do something.” At the end of the war, she experienced a death march together with her mother and sister. Today, she comments: “Whoever did not experience this cannot imagine that something like that could happen. With my Polish friend, we later once said: “My girl, could we, did we really experience that? Is it possible? Such conditions?” ... whole text

Nobody can bring them to life

During the process referred to as “selection”, the life of Bedřich Blasko was probably saved by one “supervisor” (Kapo), an older man who was on duty on the platform on that day. When he looked at the newly arrived people and saw a young man with glasses, he remarked to him: “By tomorrow, none of you will be alive. And take off your glasses!” ... whole text

She had to work in Berlin

…I can tell you that I was weeping over these memories and I realised what my parents were experiencing when they were sent me, a healthy child, somewhere and did not know where and whether I would come back… So, all the trauma suddenly overwhelmed me; somehow it all came back to me... ... whole text

Forced labourer in a uniform

And, on top of all that, when the Nazis treated this nation so cruelly and created the terror directly here; well, the nation had no choice but to hate those Germans. And now imagine that with this conviction, in this atmosphere, we come to Germany; they make us wear German uniforms, give us paramilitary training, us Czechs who actually hated them... ... whole text