Věra Krejčíková

"Then it was all about Germanization. Whoever wanted to succeed a little had to sympathize with them. My daddy didn't like Germans at all, no matter what they were like, to him, it was a German. He once said, 'No plaits and no Heil Hitler salute, and that's all I want.' My aunt, when she spoke German, Hugo said, 'Don't talk like that in front of that girl or Otakar will scatter us.'"

"There was an order that there had to be a German soldier in every house. In our cellar, there were two young Germans with a machine gun, which they were fixing because it was broken. They were two sort of young boys, they were probably a bit scared. They stayed with us until the liberation. My mother then took them to Pankrác, where she handed them over to the collection camp. She said they were in our cellar, fixing the machine gun, and they didn't hurt anybody. There were all different varieties of people there, and we spoke with Mrs. Omenska, who took them off. Years later, we got a postcard saying, 'Thank you, we're home.' So that made us happy because they were such bunnies. They belonged in school rather."

"There was a delicatessen across the street. They had a little daughter there, my age, and we were friends. It was like that, then they came to the expulsion. They had these carts with fifty kilos that they moved towards the border. They were moving to the border at night and I always admired her dirndl. And in the morning I went to get milk and everything was closed. I found the dirndl under the gate, so she actually... I didn't know they were coming so early and at night. And she just put the dirndl under the door for me. I was crying."