Helena Havlová (1953) spent her childhood in Ostrov and recalls the time when prisoners worked in the local uranium mines. She was 15 years old in 1968 - she witnessed tanks in the streets of Ostrov. She remembers signing petitions and putting up posters. She also remembers her teachers who faced persecution. When the borders opened in the 1990s, the family was finally able to see where dad grew up and played as a child. She returns to Lipová to stay at the cottage where her grandmother was born.