Eva Krupičková

"My brother went to the train station to wait for me to come. He eagerly looked in every train that arrived at the station hoping I was there. As soon as my train arrived at the station, I saw my brother on the platform. I had a lot of presents for him, clothes, shoes, etc., that I had gotten from the Russians, but when I saw him from the window looking for me, I forgot about all the packages. I simply left them in the train and jumped out to embrace him. Well, it's impossible to describe the joy I felt when we reunited – two members of the same family. At that time, we already knew that our parents were gone. Well, it was a wonderful joy, but we could no longer return to our apartment in Uzhhorod because it was occupied by the Russians. They took everything they could from it."

"You've mentioned an SS man, whom you tried to 'humanize' by singing." "Oh, lass das sein, Otto, lass das sein, deine Schläge, Otto, .... bis-ein - he would beat us, he would beat young girls. When something happened – for instance we forgot to do something, he would beat us up with a stick. And when he was in a good mood, we were singing to him - we don't mind you beating us. But we went with him to the end."

"Well, I said let's go there girls, we‘ll see if the Americans will liberate us. Well the girls didn't speak any English because they were collected from all over the country. So we arrived there and the Americans looked at us. We were bald because they had shaved our heads to prevent the spreading of lice. The American soldiers and officers were looking at us not understanding who or what we were. He said: 'do you speak English'? So I replied that I do speak English. And he said: 'what are you'? Who are you? Why don't you have any hair? Well, I told him we were prisoners, that we were arrested because we are Jews and the Germans put us in camps."