Anna Huječková

"And now, as they say, 'At the castle,' but heating it was really a problem. There was a stove everywhere, as in every room, and it had to be heated, carry coal, wood, and so on. And the hot water didn't flow at all, it all had to be heated. So we lived in the castle, but… Well, and then, when the caretaker was over sixty and retired, we moved out. But I still haven't had electricity there, that's important, and I've still learned to read or write by a lit kerosene or candle."

"But you know, everyone in the village had their own, a couple of hens or geese and rabbits, so there was some kind of misery here ... that much greater misery was in town. People who only had those tickets, and they were the ones like they had, as they say, just what they got those tickets for, and it was really small, so they came to us for food. For example, my first black concert dress cost about two pounds of lard."