Evžénie Škubalová

"We lived all in one room, and father said in the evening, 'If they haven't taken me now, they won't take me.' He used to go to work on Saturdays, and he didn't come back one day. That was the end. Mum was allowed to see him in prison here in Přerov afterwards. He wanted some clothes, so I know she brought him a T-shirt and a coat. Then they took them to Olomouc. She brought him bread there because she learned they had nothing to eat. Then he was in the Kounic Halls, and she didn't go there. We got a letter from there. And he went to Auschwitz from the Kounic Halls. He lived for ten more months after his arrest. Then we received a death certificate and a parcel from Auschwitz with his keys, coat, that T-shirt, and even his wedding ring. That surprised mum a lot."

"At least, I have the graduation certificate, but I didn't get the recommendation letter. I talked freely about how things were during the war, how Štěpán Klein who owned a soda water plant supported us; he ended up badly, he used to sit in a wheelchair by the window at home. I don't know how he ended life. He helped us. Father Bílek, I remember him coming to visit us. I don't know if he gave us money or food, not knowing is better sometimes. That's how we survived. And, because I said that my mother voted for National Socialists instead of Communists - you had to vote for 1, or 2, or 3, or 4 at the time - she didn't want me to take the graduation exam."