Helena Stránská

“It was clean there, but they had to use some kind of ventilation, otherwise we’d suffocate; but a lot of girls fell ill. There was one Anička from Mladé Vožice in my room, and she got boils all over her body. And then I got them as well, but that Anička died [later - ed.]. And so we were sick, we were in our room, and one day she told me: ‘Mum sent me a package.’ And there was a bottle of milk in it, kind of sour, like cream. And she asked me to give her a drink of it, so I did, and she died straight afterwards.”

“They put us to work underground. It was a huge pen with mountains before it, and Hitler had factories built in the foothills. You’ve no doubt heard that Mussolini gave him [?] underground in thirty-eight, and they made factories according to it. And all the machines I had worked with were there [because they moved them there from the previous camp - ed.]. It was a camp near Leibnitz.”