Milena Urbánková-Borská

“Ira and my mother were the only ones to survive. And my brother, he was in the eighth grade, but he had to work in some factories most of the time, and from time to time he did a two month service at Todt, that was this organisation, and he also helped to dig out Ira, they were the only ones in the house to survive.”

“Fortunately, we hadn't been affected directly, there was this cousin, it was a half-cousin in fact, his mother was my mother's cousin, and they would beat him up in the Pankrác prison, so my aunt came crying. And maybe they did it on purpose that they brought him to her in such a state. Or there was this other case, that they sent, as the prisoner had died already, most often they died of pneumonia, they would send his bloody shirt, stating that his mother should send a new one, they didn't have to do that, they could just burn the old one, but it seems that they enjoyed it in a way. But if he did confess, that I didn't know. He was imprisoned in Dresden and he survived. As there was quite a difference between this prison in Germany and a concentration camp where they truly tried to kill everyone. So, people who survived were mostly held in prisons. And he came back, he was skinny, his head was shaven, but he was alive.”