The female SS-members were fleeing from the camp on bicycles
In October 1944, about a hundred Czech women were transferred from Auschwitz to work in a flax processing factory in Merzdorf. Among these women was also Jana Dubová. After half a year of hard work, the camp was liberated by the Red Army. She recalled: "On May 7th, 1945, we saw from the attic of our barracks, that the female SS-guards were leaving the camp on bicycles. Thus we were left entirely without supervision. After three years and one month, I finally had a feeling of infinite happiness. With my friends, we ran down and we hugged each other, lay in the grass, jumped out of joy and cried: we survived!" On May 8, the factory in Merzdorf was occupied by Russians. They roasted a calf for the starved women. "And we, the starving girls, ate every piece of meat to the bone." The women have fond memories of the first group of Russian soldiers. The soldiers treated them kindly and tried to help. A group of Czech women, including Jana Dubová, joined them and walked with them on the way home.
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