Expulsions and the New Post-War Order In 1945, Aloisia Parsch (1903– 1988) and her children Ernst and Christine lived in Neutitschein/ Nový Jičín in Moravia. Her husband Benno had died in uniform a year earlier. On 4th July, Czech men seized Aloisia on her way home and took her to a camp. She had no idea what would happen to her and was extremely worried about her children. During the night, she and thousands of other Germans were marched to the town of Zauchtel, almost ten kilometres away, where they were put on a freight train headed for Germany. At the border, they had to continue on foot towards Saxony. In this way she ended up in the Sonnenstein camp in Pirna, then already severely overcrowded. Her nights ALOISIA PARSCH (CENTRE) WITH HER CHILDREN ERNST AND CHRISTINE Neutitschein/Nový Jičín (Czechoslovakia), April 1945 Separated from her children for a whole year ALOISIA PARSCH were spent slumped on a chair. In autumn she continued on to Thuringia without having received any news of her children. Ernst and Christine were still in Neutitschein. Not until February 1946 did they receive a letter from their mother asking them to join her in Germany. The siblings arrived in Bavaria on an expellee transport the following month, but were not reunited with their mother until July, a whole year after their separation.
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