They Pelted Me with Rotten Beets
In April, 1947, Ingeborg Cäsar´s parents received the announcement to get ready for expulsion because they were Germans. They spent their last money on tickets to Kyjov, but when they got there instead of a train going to Germany, there was a wagon taking them to the internment camp at Svatobořice. Ingeborg Cäsar was ten years old. This is how she recalls her first impressions: “We saw double watchtowers, double fences and between them a wire fence; that was a horrible impression. There were mostly old people. Each family had someone ill or disabled.” In the camp there were no children, so Inge did not have any friends to play with. She did not even make friends at school. Not only did she have go back to the camp right after school, but the Czech children treated her in an appalling way: “They haunted me every day. They threw their schoolbags at me and when they did not have anything else, they pelted me with rotten beets,” she recalls. “Once, the teacher came to the classroom during the break and the children were spitting at me. I told her, ‘Do you see what they are doing?’ [The teacher replied] ‛After all, you are guilty!’ I did not know why and what for.” In August 1949, Inge´s family was finally released from Svatobořice.
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