Jana Voráčková

"My childhood there was really good. We weren't the only ones there, the neighbour's children were there, the Smíšek family, they had four children. We were one of the little ones, then there were the middle ones and the older ones, they always stuck together. My brother August, he was already one of us, one of the younger ones, the older ones didn't want us, they had other secrets, so they didn't take us into the group. But otherwise it was great. The oldest sister had to watch us, so that nothing would happen to us, she was in charge. She complained about us being naughty, but otherwise it was fine. During the holidays I had to babysit, by the time I was ten I was cooking like an adult, you just had to help out because there were so many kids, so everyone had a job to do and we had to work. There was less fun, there was more work, that's how it is on the farm."

"Suddenly the village was completely abandoned, there was no one to feed the cattle in the properties. When Dad couldn't manage it, he let them out into the open so they wouldn't bleat in the barns. On June 1, we were able to go back to Ješkov, because the new settlers could not get possession of our property, because it was 24 hectares and the ration was only given up to 15 or 20, I don't know exactly. So we were allowed to return. But the house, the building, was so looted that there were no beds, nothing, so we even slept on the floor, my sister even said that they found only old blankets that were for the horses, which they used to cover themselves with when the weather was worse."