"We used to be some seven kilometres from the battlefront and we cooked for the officers."
Anastázie Barteisová is a Czech born in Volyn. The Czechoslovak Army was the destination of first her father, then her sister, then of herself, and in the end even of her mother and youngest brother. She then worked with her mother in the officer's canteen. They used to always be some seven kilometres away from the battlefront, and when the front moved, they moved with it. In the May of 1945 she arrived in liberated Prague. Her family lived first in Žatec, later she was given a place in Southern Moravia, which she then lost. Her family had political problems, and Barteisová was herself in prison for a month during the Fifties. Barteisová brought up three children, she now lives in Znojmo.
