Dita Edelmanová

"I couldn't go to Pioneer, so I went to the hiking club. So there was a love of hiking in me. And after school, how do you get into hiking other than hiking with the retired hiking club? So I went hiking with the young people, and we went out into the countryside, and we slept in the countryside under the open sky, which I enjoyed very much. One day we walked past the cemetery in Vrábeč and we used to throw wreaths behind the cemetery wall, so we collected the ribbons and made up different inscriptions. So we made up signs saying: 'Lenin never again. February 25th - sleep sweetly. And funny signs like that. And we took pictures of ourselves as youngsters and we took a lot of pictures. One day I had the photos developed and I brought them to the workshop where I worked, and we laughed so hard. Once in a while I would go home for lunch because it was fairly close. And one time I went home and took the photos home. And then when I came back from lunch, the State Security guys were already there and I had my locker emptied, my purse searched, the stuff at the work machine all emptied, and they caught me right away and started searching me. And I didn't know what was going on."