Věra Kyjovská

"And when it started, my grandmother let me go. Nothing was known there, but when I was gone, they knew it now, but there were no cell phones, nothing like that. So you know, she was afraid of what had happened to me. And I was at home too, now I saw that they wore tricolors, as they say. Well, there was a lot of talk there, I didn't understand much. But I still arrived and waited back for the tram, but it didn't work anymore, so I would walk. However, it was quite far away and I had to go there in one apartment, it was the Women's Home, instead of the Women's Home there were just soldiers. I couldn't go anywhere else before I had to cross. It just so happened to me before I started like this... when we got out, they were soldiers running like this and shooting, so we hid as much as we could."

"Then it was all over, so uncle, Dad's brother, still insisted we should go somewhere else. Dad didn't want to, and he didn't want to go in until they decided to go. So we were here and we were in Filipov. And I still went to school there, because in Filip's school it was only until the fifth grade and I already had to go to Jiříkov, there was more. I always had to have nine years old, because I wasn't nine years, so even then I actually went to that one-year training course."