Interview with Ms. R. (translation of part of interview)
date of interview: January 30th 1995
interview made by Magdalena Muellner
parsonage: view at the small community-hall
„It is true that there were Jews locked up in the parsonage in Laa. They weren’t the Jews from Laa, they were Polish Jews. They wore Stars of David on their clothes and they were men, women and children. It must have been about 50 people. They got cooked fodder beets to eat. Our pigs almost got better feed. They staid here more than a season, I guess it must have been from 1940 to 1941. I think they came in summer. When war came closer they were brought away. They worked in the brickyard in Laa and went there as a working unit every day on foot. They were accommodated there where there is the small community-hall at the ground floor. There was a wooden fence between the corridor that leads to the garden and the community hall and the Jews were locked behind it. At this time Dr. Jungbauer was the priest and Dr. Alois Böck was chaplain.
In the same kitchen, where the food for the Polish Jews was cooked, they also cooked for the prisoners of war, which were kept in Laa (30 Frenchmen, also Italians, Yugoslavs, Russians, the Russians were locked up in a stable). The kitchen was in the Slunsky-house, next to the school.