"It was Several Sentences, and I also told Martin [Palouš] where to sign, and he said, 'Wait, I'm going, we're going to Ječná to the Němec family, so come with me.' So I went with him to the Němec family and signed it in the Mrs. Němcová’s flat. I was fascinated there, the house, the flat. There was a documentary film the other day and I was looking at it, oh, here I had been. And Dana Němcová's attitude was incredible. She... there must have been such a mix of people and she was nice to everybody. She offered everybody coffee, which is amazing. And then I was waiting to be named on the Voice of America that I had signed, and they still nothing. And I know my ex was always like, 'Well, I'd sign it in a heartbeat.' And I was like, 'Well, sign it, I already signed it.' 'You're stupid.' Anyway, if they read my name... maybe, yeah, maybe not. And I told Martin that I hadn't heard my name. And he says to me, 'It doesn't matter, as long as you're signed'."
"And we went home by train, and as I see it today, because martial law was declared, and the train, although it left on time, didn't arrive until sometime at twelve o'clock at night.
So the whole Main Station was full of people who couldn't get out. And my mother made us beds... as there is a kind of a gallery, there used to be ticket offices, and there are some allegorical statues, so she made us a sleeping bag under that one statue so we could sleep there. Well, it was not possible there. Anyway, so I remember I was walking around, and suddenly there was a shooting. And they started shooting at the ceiling. That was the reality. I was 14, so I just realized that. And I can still hear it to this day, the shooting in the ceiling, in that Fanta Hall . And every time I get there, I remember how we slept on a sleeping bag under the statue."
Anna Kozáková was born on 30 April 1954 in Prague to parents who were affected by the Nazi occupation and the communist coup. Her father Jaroslav Srb came from a prominent Prague family. He himself was involved in the anti-fascist resistance, and after February 1948, as one of the students who followed President Beneš, he was expelled from university. Marta Srbová, née Teigeová, grew up with her mother, who became the owner of three Prague houses after her husband’s early death. This grandmother spent a year in prison during the war after being denounced for allegedly possessing “Jewish gold.” The properties of both families naturally passed into the hands of the state. Anna Kozáková grew up in Podolí, in an expropriated family villa, and came of age during the time of the normalisation. Her unacceptable family background was even more complicated by her uncompromising attitudes. She also refused to join the Socialist Youth Union (SSM) and only got into the Faculty of Science of Charles University at the second attempt, in a field that was not in demand. However, this brought her into contact with like-minded young people. She studied hydrogeology and engineering geology and worked in the field of groundwater and environmental protection. In 1989, she signed Several Sentences and took part in demonstrations. After the revolution, she went through a divorce, a career change and a long-standing restitution dispute. At the time of recording she lived in Jesenice near Prague.
