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Vlasta Kálalová di Lotti
Among the women invited to Kortright was the Czech doctor Vlasta Kálalová di Lotti. Her story made a lasting impression on Ingeborg. Her husband and children were killed on the eigth of May 1945 - the liberation day! The di Lotti family had started celebrating the freedom in their garden when somebody outside fired a shot towards the leaving German army. The army opened fire, killing everybody nearby. Vlasta's lungs were penetrated by a bullet, but she survived.
Ingeborg wrote the poem "Ved det runde bord i Kortright", printed in "Jesabels latter", as a memorial over Vlasta's family:
"Yes, I lost everybody
at dawn on the freedom day.
One hour more, liberation had come:
I lost them the eight of May.
Here's the home we shared,"
she handed small pictures around.
"And here is one of my husband,
our home was my childhood home.
It's as if the entire sacred ground
was blue of forget-me-not
and among the tender flowers
crept my children injured and shot.
Dagmar's voice chimes in my mind:
'I do not want to die!' "
Dagmar di Lotti, killed May 8th, 1945.
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