Marta Braunová

"I had to go to religion to tell the truth. So I went, it might have been sometime in the third grade. And one year, that's such an interesting thing, I'll tell you, one year I didn't turn in that application, and my mother was wondering, 'October, haven't you had religion yet?' I said, 'No.' Well, my mother found out that I hadn't handed it in, and my grandmother, her mother, was kind enough to tell her, 'Well, leave it alone when the kids are making fun of her. So leave her alone. Go to church and leave her. Don't make her.' My grandmother was more tolerant about that."

"Everything was scarce... I know that my grandmother told me that there were still food stamps in the early 1950s. That it was all so... not ruined, but empty. German families were evicted from their farms."