Kristina Bánovská

"It was the whole train. There was a doctor there and babies were being born there. The Red Cross said the kids were locked in the carriages for a week and they had to run around. So we ran out under the hill and picked flowers. Behind us with rifles and bayonets, Russian soldiers from the train. It was such a tragicomedy that we laughed. Then we kept going, we kept going. I don't know how long, probably a fortnight or three Sundays. Then at some station, they dropped all of us that were there out of one carriage, and the train went on, and they left us there. Then some truck came there, and they loaded us there. Maybe there were more cars, I don't even know. Then they took us to some village and there were four big stables like that. These were pigsties."

"One night, some people we'd never seen before came in. Neither my mother nor her parents knew them. There was a barrel of cucumbers in the kitchen, so they knocked it over and stepped in the cucumbers and went from room to room, each taking what they wanted. We didn't do anything. My sister had a fever, and my mother was sitting with her, and a woman came and took the blanket and left. They said they were the Banderites."