Ida Menzingerová

"... We're going to the expulsion, my father came to Nové Domky, he had the paper that Brzák had to release me, that we were going to the expulsion, we were looking forward to going away to the expulsion too, so I went home and in two days we had to move out. They came, I don't know who, we called 'the commissar', it was the nobs, these young boys on horses, and they were watching what we could take with us. So it was thirty kilos per person outside of shoes, they didn't count, and dishes too, that was more, but personal things thirty kilos. My dad could take his sewing machine because he was sewing shoes, that was an expensive machine, he wanted to take that with him, and my mother could take her machine, we could take that too, and otherwise we didn't have much, we only had one pair of shoes, and otherwise we had clogs - we were happy, we could walk around in those clogs, like the Dutch clogs we had, and our grandfather made them - and so we had to be in Nové Domky by the shop, that there, and it was strange to us that we didn't go down to Lipno, to the station, why didn't we go there, when all the transports met there, and then from there they were all moved out in big cars, they were military cars, huge, they loaded the transports. Well, we didn't do anything! We waited all day, a hot day, it was in June, and then we waited all the time, no phone, nothing, and we took our boxes, we took the stuff, and we folded it there and waited, and Grandpa had to put the cows back in the big yard, where the police headwaters was, we called it the commissariat, I guess it was, I don't know. And then we waited, and in the evening the forman would come with the horses and say, 'Are you the Sulzer family?' - 'Yeah.' - 'Well I'm Bible and I'm coming to get you...'"