“It was late at evening, I used to be already asleep, when my mom’s delicate voice woke me up. ‘Dollychen, it’s a must to rise up now. It isn’t morning but.’ She got here and sat on the mattress with me and so did my father. They mentioned they needed to depart for 2 weeks, because the Germans needed that, however then they might come again…. the doorbell out of the blue rang very loud and lengthy and my father opened the door. Three officers from the Grüne Polizei [Nazi police force] burst in, their boots making a loud noise of clicking and stamping. They shouted all kinds of orders loudly and roughly for everybody to rush up: ‘Schnell, schnell, sonst schiessen wir [(Quick, quick, otherwise we shoot]’. I hid behind Anna and was scared, very scared.”
