Anna Luptáková

"There was a doctor too. We went to the doctor for a check-up. I know we did. Then rain came. I remember they took us to a barn. There was straw and hay. That's where we were. How long? I don't know, maybe two or three days before the train came. I guess the train was late, too. We ran out of the food we had." - "From home?" - "Yes, from home. So my aunt, I don't know how she found out, baked bread at home and brought it to us. This is what I remember. Then we got on that train. But it wasn't a train, it was..." - "Freight?" - "Freight... like cattle cars, yes. I don't know, there were maybe twenty of us in the car; we were all related."

My uncle drove us to the detention camp, actually to the train station. I recall we lived... no, we didn't live... we stayed in a little forest or park. There was a big house built there. I don't know if it was wooden; not wooden, I don't think. There were showers; we never saw those before. And there was hot water. We used to go there to shower. There was a hillside below the forest and all the people were waiting for the train, for the transport to leave. There were a lot of us, we weren't alone. They were waiting and went swimming in the river in the meantime. It was hot."