Cecílie Urbancová

"I was called there four times. I was called again. They made me sign some paper - I don't even know what it was. I said I wouldn't sign it. They said I had to sign it, I said I didn't have to. And I left. So they called me in a third time. And they said, 'You have to sign it!' I was so mentally exhausted that I took a pencil and wrote: "By order. And the signature. The noise after that! I left. I was called for the fourth time. I said to my husband: 'Jirka, I can't take it anymore. The constant check-ups, the book corrections, the housework. You have to imagine that I had 38 students in my class. 38 notebooks - do you know what that is? And Jirka said, 'Cilinka, we're fighters. I fight for the university and you fight for the students. I'm going with you.'"

"I remember that they were chasing Jews down the road because they had a shop. They were herded into trucks and taken to concentration camps. When my mother saw me watching, she chased me away. She told me not to look at it. I asked her, 'Mommy, what did they do? They were so nice.' We used to go shopping with them. And Mummy said, 'Cilla, you don't understand, but they have different beliefs and that makes them uncomfortable.' And now I'm looking into the lost, and I see wooden boards and posters with names on them. On one side in German, on the other half in Czech, and the names everywhere. And there was also the name of the Sokol club where I used to train."