Inka playing the piano (private archive of Mrs. M. Maria Mikusz)

Meva says:

"Usually in the afternoons, I was spending my time teaching Inka to write, read books or even how to play  the  piano"

"We lived a very hard time during the long siege of Czortkow in 1944. We were staying in the basement, eating only potatoes and milk from our bread-winner – a goat which was there with us"

Meva and Inka (private archive of Mrs. M. Maria Mikusz)

"The girl was in our house for about 2,5 years.[...] Inka was always very polite and she knew that she couldn't leave the house.[...] The only entertainment in  her life was a small balcony on the first floor. When it was warm, I covered it with blankets and Inka could stay outside unnoticed from the street."

"In the beginning of March 1945, Frieda Hauser knocked our door. She was her mother but Inka naturally can't have recognized her and thought she was a  strange woman. She didn't want to leave her Meva and aunt."