Jaroslav Jeřábek

"Francisca von Groote. And she was of a smaller stature, a little bit overweight, and people called her 'noble miss'. It was all noble man, noble lady, so she was noble miss because she was unmarried. She was physically disabled, her legs were terribly swollen, you could see that even under her skirt. As she wore the skirt, her ankles were swollen. I don't know what her illness was, but she was charismatic. Very religious, Catholic. Financially, she ran the whole block."

"That was 1969. It was an autumn Sunday and I hear some people in the hallway. I was home alone. Then someone knocked and three people introduced themselves to me - one was from the Foreign Ministry and two were from the German Embassy. And that they were accompanying a gentleman who had spent his childhood here. And this gentleman was standing behind them. And I remembered his appearance and I said, 'Please, isn't that gentleman Klaus Feltzmann?' And then he said, 'Ja, ja, Klaus Feltzmann, servus, Jari!' He recognized me too. Then he asked me about different people, he remembered Mr. Denker, he was already dead, Mr. Brejník, he was also dead, unfortunately. He asked if we could go for a walk in Jenišovice, of course. I asked about his father, how he got home and so on. And he said his dad had a pub in Munich. So that's how we met. Because of my poor German, we didn't talk much, although there were interpreters."