Anna Turoňová

"As I said, there were two shopkeepers there, Jews, and we bought there kerosene, sugar, matches, salt, things like that. Everything was made at home. We had milk because we had cows, you had to buy semolina, there was rice and we made groats at home. The little kids ate semolina cooked for them and many times it was cooked repeatedly - we had potatoes, cabbage, bread. What we made, we had. We had meat, too, because we had poultry or we fattened up a pig, so there was a pig-slaughtering, that [meat] we saved for whole year, we smoked it. That's how we lived there."

"They were taking only those [poor people] from Romania at first, because there were a lot of people who had nothing, who had only their house and worked for farmers, so they took those who didn't have anything, the poor. And they really didn't want us, that we had something. We had a lot of fields, because two of Dad's brothers moved away and left us fields, so they considered that we had too many fields and that we had a big farm, but they just didn't look at the fact that we were a big family. But then Dad somehow arranged it. Imagine, he had to go to the administration and beg them to take us. We really wanted to go to Czechoslovakia and they didn't want us because we had more fields than the others. That's how it was."