Interview with Wilma Iggers in Horsovsky Tyn, 2005.
This video is currently only available in German. Below you will find an English translation of the audio track.
“We packed as much as we could and put as much into the car or on top of the car. I had the argument with my mother because I wanted to take my books and photo albums with me. My mother was more in favor of warm laundry. When we left our maid Leni was standing at the front door and asked: “When will you be back then”? Little did I know we would never come back. We didn’t have that either. Leni stayed in the house and we went to Canada and later found out that Leni had taken a lot of our things. And - well - I thought it was fine. I thought she was better off than any stranger. And then she got deranged. And there are two theories: one is that she had remorse for taking all of that. And the other theory is that she went crazy because everything at the limit was taken from her again.
Later in Germany - she was resettled, like all Sudeten Germans - somehow she never had the courage to meet with me. She was always sick or felt bad. Then I never saw her again. "