Ivan Kamenský

The Gestapo was told that there were two Jewish families, so they would come for us. Well, it was decided that all the other men who were alone would disappear from there. They run away. They left us there, the two families. So there was nothing we could do, there was nowhere to go. So, I say, it was in the deep forest and the snow was deep, and the cold was terrible. Well, they just didn't know where they could go. We would be frozen there. And what was interesting, because I was, when my father talked about it. That's why I know it in such detail, because after the war, he told it to the rest of the family who remained and also acquaintances. He was such a storyteller type and I always sat down with him and listened to it. It was an adventure for me. The five-year-old, six-year-old boy experienced something he doesn't remember, but I was there, so I felt like a hero, sporadically.

My mom told me that she was very lucky that I have never said I was hungry, I didn't eat. And this rejection of food, it was very interesting, because I still had it after the war. It persisted until, maybe the 19th year of my life. At that time, I was one hundred and seventy-one centimetre tall and weighed less than fifty-two kilos. I didn't eat, I have never been hungry. You didn't feel a hunger. I did not feel hungry, I did not feel hungry, and it was the same at the boardinghouse. So, If I was eating,it's just that it's time to eat and something needs to be eaten. And that summer, when I reached nineteen years old, so during holidays, July and August, I gained fifteen kilograms. This weight has remained with me for the rest of my life. I have a little less now, well.