Antonie Bencová

"Some people saw it that way, that we were different, maybe. But mainly we had the problem that we were always called Romanians. Those Romanians, those Romanians, there are those Romanians again. So I explained a lot at the beginning that we were Slovaks and that we came from Romania. Then I started to explain that in Romania those people are people too and that those Romanians are not so ugly for the Slovak people who are there. And that no matter what, that they are not ugly to them, I can't say that. They have their schools, their churches, their famous shops where they speak Slovak. I don't know if that's a swear word. They are human beings, some are Romanian, some are Hungarian, some are Slovak. There were enough of those people. But not in adulthood, not in childhood."

"It was horrible because my husband was driving this big car in the woods, and he came back and said to me, 'Wake up, it's war.' I looked out of the window, the Benc family had this big farmhouse, so I looked out of the window and there were tanks pointed at us by the farmhouse. So I woke up quickly. They were already there. I came home from work at night and they were there by 7 o'clock in the morning. My husband was like that, he kept saying it was terribly wrong. That the brothers shouldn't do this to us, but again he was like, here to these boys, he said, 'The boys are there.' He made tea, took them bread, he spread it and everything. Maybe he was telling them, 'Go home, what do you want here, go home.'" He saw it from his point of view, he was older and he saw it differently, I was just scared. We saw it wrong."