Marie Mayerová

"In 1949, they began to persuade people in villages to enter JZD. Well, that's when the smart guys came. The workers in the industrial plants understood that the machines that would make the farmers’ work easier would be more efficient, and would work better in the unified fields than in the small fields. At first, the villagers were more scared than persuaded. On November 13, 1950, there was a constitutive meeting of the preparatory committee in Terezín. Other farmers were still being convinced of the advantages of collective farming. All the citizens then joined the JZD. Terezín was the first village in the Hodonín district where all the citizens were in the JZD. 102 members. On October 4th of the same year, there was a ceremonial plowing and a preparation for a big sowing. The preparations for the construction of the cow house began immediately. Due to various political events in 1953, all the cooperative members resigned and the cooperative was dissolved.”

"Because he was a butcher and they had this awfully big dog and I was so scared of the dog at the time, I went to get some logs and I tried to pet the dog. And he bit me right here (on her face) and it pushed me down. That was right during the war, actually, so forty-five already. Three girls took me, tied me up with a scarf, and the road was full of Germans, so we walked up the path here. Now Tonda, my cousin, asks Špalek: 'Are you a doctor? Are you a doctor? Come here and stitch it up. So he did, he only did three stitches and left. Well, then it started to fester a little bit, so later that day, they took me there to get it cleaned. There was a man called Moravec, but he was drunk, so it was impossible to talk to him. So we slept there that night, and that very night they bombed Mutěnice. And so we got down from the loft and waited for it to pass, and then we finally got to Čejč the next day and the vet took out my stitches and cleaned them because it was festering. But I had it cleaned out and a year later I went to Prague for a plastic surgery and Dr. Burian, the best plastic surgeon, did it really nicely. But when he opened the wound, I really smelled the dog."