Jana Kučerová

"I know there was hockey, but we were in the cinema at the time. Everybody had a transistor so we would know how we play. It was how we first won against the Soviet Union. We all stood up and everyone who had a radio turned it up so our anthem would go. That was beautiful at the time. It stopped, we sat down again and watched the cinema."

"I was awakened by planes, lots of planes. My husband says, 'They're having some kind of exercise.' I say, 'I don't know, it's some kind of weird exercise, look how they're flying.' We turned on the TV and I knew what it was going to be. My mom came in and told us we had to get home fast to get there. The boy was three years old, we drove from Lázně Bělohrad, it's thirty-seven kilometres, we drove from morning until five o'clock. We stood everywhere, sirens were blaring everywhere. We had a pram, and when we arrived in Jaroměř, we went home. We arrived at the cemetery and there were Poles there. They stopped us right away. We said that we were going home, that we lived there. Everywhere we went there were Polish cars and soldiers."