Eva Bródyová

"Actually, I would also like to ask if maybe in the early days, or in that period of childhood, adolescence... by being close to that film, which was still developing so... it was relatively new in society, that whether you perceived such modernity that your father was a cameraman and everything connected with that. Yes, yes. By the fact that my father worked as a cameraman and sometimes as a director, pictures that were shown in cinemas, like a week in the movie, where his name was mentioned... so of course we were proud, and so, well. In addition, at home I knew which pictures he took, even if there was only a list of names. Because... because his Slovak wasn't that good and he needed to make a comment on some of the pictures, sometimes, even when I was a little older, a little older... but I was still in elementary school, and my mother couldn't make it because … so he let me write. That he will talk and I will write... so make it Slovak. Well... it was difficult, because his developed sentences were endless, and today I know that German also has a different word order, especially in subordinate clauses, and that it's just... so he gave me a sentence and I was completely devastated by it, but as to do something that could be... but, so I know exactly what the images were about, which he somehow processed at home, and I remember that he was very proud that somewhere between two districts there was a pit on the road that neither wanted , to do. And when he took a picture of it, suddenly it was found, and yet the journey was completed. So he was convinced that by some such criticism, he helps. Or some attitude that knows…. but repeatedly, the possibilities of what to show were limited."

"And actually, I would gradually build on the fifties, and that... you were also born, so... I would already bridge that, basically like you, you remember your early childhood, which was basically already in the sixties. Yes, well. December fifty-nine is actually sixties more. What I experienced... we moved into a brand new house, yes. I mean, I don't remember the sublease on Čapková, because I was very little. The sister earlier, she was... the sister also knew more Hungarian than I did, well. After all, I'm younger and my brother, I think he knows almost nothing. So it was interesting that while the grandmother was alive, we still had Hungarian in some form at home. But... but... everything was dug up on the street, we were playing at the construction site. And... and I still remember 1968, I was still very young... we weren't allowed on the main road, where the tanks usually went, we weren't allowed there. I remember that grandma was scared… she wanted to black out the windows at the moment… when she heard planes or something. The fear of war was suddenly here again, as it were. I know that leaflets were dropped, as children we went to collect them when they fell on our street. But we weren't allowed to go much further at that age, so... some of the news from TV, but I would say that I didn't know the seriousness of it until later. That was about… The sixty-eight. And actually, I would get to the sixty-eighth somehow... I'll get to it, but I'd like to ask... did you mention that the city was dug up also because there was some new construction there? New construction. Rather, it was a new construction, despite the fact that... we got an apartment from the movie. It was also not easy, because who received where and at that time, it also worked through acquaintances and although both parents were in the party, which is like , well...but mom said that she had to assert herself. Zuzana Mináčová was actually a budding photographer at the time, who was a family friend, I can call it that... since she started as a photographer with her father, she told her that she had to go there and make her mark, and simply say that her father fought in the war for the release that her father died in a concentration camp, that is, how, or that as a result. Father… his sister directly. In the end, the mother won because the father got the apartment from the movie. So it was not so easy at that time and many things went through... through... already at that time someone knew how to conquer more, although my mother felt that everyone knew that this is how it is, but you still had to fight for such things. So we had a new apartment where they were building a swimming pool around it, so we played in the trenches. "

"And actually I would have gradually reached the end of the thirties... you have already indicated what the fates were like there. It was in the spring of the thirty-eighth year, the Anschluss of Austria, when it was annexed to the Third Reich. And I would start... well, that aunt was trying, if I understood correctly, to escape to Palestine at that time. Yes, yes, yes. And… In that time. And was it thirty-eight that year, or something later? It must have been at that time, because she was no longer... I don't know. I would be lying, I would actually make that up. And now I'm not sure. Was that aunt older or younger than your father? I think it was the older sister. Older... and you don't know where exactly they were caught, or... I do not know. I don't know where it was, but I know that it was already on the ship and someone went to get something else that... I'll say something on the way, hey... and it's just somehow... they were betrayed, well. The assumption that someone must have taken them from the party... or someone must have betrayed them. And so, your father was sent to Bratislava in the year thirty-eight. Well. Parents… that he should go... so he passed, I say, as a twelve-year-old. He went by himself, which after all, from town to town and he went by himself, yes. But... those parents... we still have the passport that was issued in Vienna somewhere at home. And on the exact same day, there is also a stamp that they crossed the border... which means that they were really waiting for a passport so that they could officially leave Austria and come to... like Slovakia, or Czechoslovakia. Whereas the father, as a boy, let him cross the border somehow, yes.. there. And did he ever describe it? That he was going back in his memories, what he was going through, and whether, as such a small boy, he was even aware of what was happening at the time. I think so. Yes, yes, yes! Sometimes, when we had to read the manifesto at school, well... he used to say that he had already read it at the age of twelve and he knew that... that the path could go in this direction and, like, it was clear. That the people who... I repeat myself... who somehow informed themselves, read, it was clear that it was bad and that they had to escape, well. So, he was just telling me the situation that at the border he had to lie to the people that there was no school today and that he was going to his aunt's. Well, it was actually true. So they let him go as a child alone, more or less without problems, whereas the parents probably needed a passport to let them cross the border. "