Jmenuji se Eva… – Mirovská Jana (2023)

Her heart raced, pulsing through her emaciated, starving body all the way to her brain, her hands trembled, she had to hold the paper tightly, she had to catch her breath from the wave of joy to be able to read at all. The letter said that he had been looking for her for a long time, that he was waiting for Eva in Prague, that she would find her home with her professor, and that she should sign up as soon as possible?? She started reading quickly again, from the beginning, "Dear Evička, I have been looking for you for several months..." she barely finished reading and from her bed among the other patients in the carriage, she began to call out and wave the letter. "I have somewhere to go! Take me out of the train! I will go to my professor at this address in Prague!" She wanted to stand up, she wanted to get out of the train, but she couldn't. The carriage doors were already closing, the locomotive roared to life, and an announcement was heard, "Train to Lübeck ready!" and she kept shouting. "Wait! You can't leave... I don't want to go anywhere! I have somewhere to go! ...I have a home!!! I want to go home!!" But no one heard her anymore... The Red Cross train left Bergen-Belsen, loaded with hundreds of those who survived... Heading to Sweden. ******************** She wanted to go back home, to "her" Prague, to the apartment in Libeň where she grew up, surrounded by her mother's wisdom and kindness, her father's fairy tale stories, where good always triumphed. She wanted to go back to...