Dana Bartošová

"My aunt just said - something is happening, it was announced on the radio. Indeed, they didn't have television and we didn't know anything, only the radio broadcasting. Well, as a curious historian, of course I had to be there, so I went to the Wenceslas Square, even though my aunt protested that something would happen to me and the like. Well, it was quite wild on Wenceslas Square, on the radio, right, I would probably repeat what someone has already told you, or what you know, but I saw with my own eyes how the tank caught fire there, how people were running there shouting, we were all afraid, right. Banners everywhere. Well, strangely enough, I met my classmate from Karlovy Vary, so the two of us went together, which felt kind of safer."

"As schoolkids the area was a big playground for us. It wasn't like today when we came home from school and were already under surveillance and reporting. There were no cell phones, no telephones. In the first grade, I got a key around my neck and my mom went to work, she worked as a spa attendant in Spa 1, and it was up to me. So we were running around the park and it was beautiful. I like to remember that today. In the winter, we even sledded on Škroupová street, because there were almost no cars driving past, right, so it was perfect. That was just nice.'