Jarmila Dvořáková

"They were expelled from Krnov, they lived there, they came from there. This was the area where the Germans were displaced, so they moved them to Králík and there they were concentrated in a hall and there were a lot of them. Farmers from Eastern Bohemia could go there and choose them there as field workers, as helpers in agriculture. So Dad went there with a tractor and a flatbed. He brought a family with a lady and six children. Erika, the eldest, was 18, then Willy was 16, Adolf was nine, and Pepi was about a year old. And they pounced on Dad, that they were all gone and that no one wanted them when there was only a lady in the family. So Dad took them and they were amazing. They tried hard, they were very grateful to Dad. Adolf always remembers the first shoes he had that my dad bought him. And Erika, when they walked from Krnov to Králík, she only went in a petticoat, she couldn't take anything. So my mother dressed her, helped them as best she could, and they tried again. Even the children helped what they could. For example, Adolf, when he was nine years old, took care of the heating and the oven, they were very grateful, and that friendship has remained until now. "

"There was a soldier among them, named Gubchenko, Ivan Gubchenko. He was a teacher. And he was very friendly and kind to us - then to mother and father - and he told us in forty-five: 'Get together and go somewhere out of the country, because what you have here, they will take your farm. I tell you this from my own experience because my parents had a mill. ' So he would advise us to run away before they take everything from us. "