Alla Boroličová

"But you know, I used to walk across the cemetery because I was afraid to go through the town. The Germans took away, when they released me, they brought people to Germany, they took them away for those works. And I was afraid that they might simply catch me. They were catching people in the streets, you know. So when I went to visit my aunt, I had an aunt, dad's eldest sister, I would go across the cemetery and by a back road outside the town. And, behind the cement works where dad was badly injured, there was a dug out hole and they brought those Jews there and they were shooting them. I, once, as I walked across the cemetery, there was a wall of lilac. I stood behind but it was quite far. But one hears the shots, and the screaming... So they tied them there... and then, one day I went there one evening and I went that way and the earth moved. And I never went there any more."

"I had a 9mm handgun from Česká Zbrojovka. There were nine cartridges, too. Hardly anyone had that. So what? So they had morphine or something, a syringe. Because anyone would rather kill themselves than get taken as prisoners. Because those, those were not people, those were beasts."

"Byla v té vojenské nemocnici v Terezíně, tam byla utvořena. Židi už tam nebyli, ale když jsem šela do té pevnosti podívat na to nádvoří, tak ještě ta krev na té zdi byla červená, ještě nebyla ani zašlá. Krev když stárne tak ztrácí taky tu svojí jasnost, tak ještě na té zdi, kde je stříleli, tak tam ještě byla ta krev. Tak jsem si zas vzpomněla na ty Židi, který stříleli tam na Volyni, jak se tam zem hýbala." "It was in the military hospital in Terezín. There were no Jews any more but when I went to the fort to look at that courtyard, the blood on that wall was red, it has not faded yet. When blood stains age, they lose their clarity, so on the wall where they used to shoot them, there was still that blood. I recalled again all the Jews they shot there at Volhynia, how the earth moved there."