In a children’s home near Poznań, Marie and other “selected” children underwent so-called “re-education”. There, speaking Czech was forbidden and severely punished. After a year, she was given a German name, Ingeborg Schiller, and, as an orphan, placed with a German family. For three years, that is, until 1946, she lived with them, first in Poznań, Poland, and later in Boizenburg, Germany.
After the war, her adoptive family reported her to the Czech authorities and Marie Doležalová returned to Czechoslovakia.
At the age of 15, Marie testified as one of three witnesses to the massacre in Lidice at the RuSHA trial, one of the subsequent Nuremberg trials.