Eva Nebesářová

„I took it as a satisfaction after all those previous years. Even though I somehow wasn’t injured or affected by the dictatorship, one takes it from the perspective of the past years since the First Czechoslovak Republic, since the foundation of the republic. And I tell myself that we have finally gotten somewhere where we are supposed to be. It’s good that today our children or grandchildren can travel, have the possibility to for example study and travel abroad. I think that it’s really important for kids to get to know other cultures. And I would be glad if there was never another war here again. Because as the recently deceased director Vorlíček used to say: ‚Can you imagine that a war would erupt here now? Can someone imagine?‘ I know that wars always were, always are and always will be. But thank God that we have no war here. Because sometimes I think that the young generation doesn’t appreciate the fact that there is no war, since they didn’t experience it.”

“As he [brother] was deaf-mute, so he always banged his hands like this, like that he hates them. And I remembered that, when I traveled to Chrudim and the older years of birth enlisted – the oldsters who had families and were usually farmers. They enlisted and didn’t know where they’ll end up and how. And everyone despised them. And because we had many German classes, I knew German pretty well. I listened to it already from my grandma. And so we talked to them in the train. They were awfully glad that someone speaks to them in German, because they didn’t speak Czech. And so I saw that not all Germans are the same. They weren’t fanaticized. They just had to subordinate to the order that ruled at that time. And I am tolerant of Germans.”