She left the camp and thus escaped the raping
On May 8, 1945, the Red Army occupied the labor camp of Merzdorf. The German personnel of the camp had fled a day earlier. One of the inmates agreed with the Russian commandant that a group of inmates from the camp could join them on their march to Bohemia. Jana Dubová recalls: "It was thirty kilometers to the border. We went with the first army, with the artillery, into the mountains and the road was littered with wrecks of German cars and corpses. There was still heavy artillery fire ravaging the area. We feared for our lives." The girls went with a group of Russian soldiers, mostly from Moscow, who were helping them and who were very decent. Jana recalls that her feet were all bloody from walking in the clogs. One of the Russian soldiers got her some "sneakers" in which she then walked all the way home. Hitting the road with the first army proved to be a wise decision, as a short time later, a group of wild troops from Siberia arrived in the labor camp and raped the remaining women.
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