Hanna Petrivna Jankovska

“It was winter and there was some major holiday going on. They took us from Slovakia, from the village of Hanigovce, from the Prešov District, or what the name of that district had been back then. They would put us in those railway cars, the simple ones, in which cattle had been delivered, and we were in the same cars as those animals, and that's how they brought us here.”

“I remember that there was some kind of propaganda. As there was this granny going with us on a train stating: 'Over there, we will be well off.' That's a thing I remember. She said: 'They said that if you want to catch a pig you could do so and the whole pig would belong to you. Even fences would be covered with sausage.' That's how it was. I remember that, I was just a child and this granny wouldn't stop speaking.'