Igor Bielik

"The second time we met, it was in the 71st, at the end of the 71st. The Israeli national team went to Japan to play and a week before we left we were training in Romania. And she came to Romania for the second time and stayed with us all week during the training camp. Among other things, the entire team was invited to the Israeli embassy. The Israeli ambassador was a very good friend of my uncle from Nahariya. He knew what this was about. He took us to the balcony, where there were no wiretapping devices, so that he wouldn't be discredited by chance, and there he said, "You have no hope." But at the farewell, when we said goodbye, I think we both already felt something was coming to an end. That was in the 71st year. We corresponded, in the meantime, I was at the compulsory military service for half a year, everything continued, letters, letters, but nothing happened. She couldn't write to me directly about what was going on with her. "

"My parents, as I said, went to this cottage in Inovec. But they didn't find anyone there, so they had to go back. In the village of Žitná, which is near Kôrovec, they had old acquaintances. They stayed with them. It was not easy, at first it was the Jamrišek family, they had been with this family for about two months. They had to leave, because Mr Jamriška was a partisan and the Germans and the Slovak guards began looking for him. I'm sorry, the first family was called Hrebíčková, whom my parents had to leave. They went to another family, which Mrs Hrebíčková suggested and helped them to find, the Jamrišek's family. My father also had to leave and joined the partisans who were in the mountains above Žitná, above Uhrovec. He was with the partisans until the end of the war, and my mother stayed with me and little Ivan, who was six years older than me, with this Jamrišek family. It was not easy: Jamrišek had six children, to add the two of us and his mother. It was a family that lived in a two-room cottage. But these were the people in Slovakia, I want to say that they were good people in Slovakia, they were not just fascists and members of the national guards. People who helped and actually risked their lives and their children. "