Leopoldina Čermáková

"The Germans acted badly. They went in thinking there were all people partisans. What's his name... - "Tito's partisans?" - "Partisans, yes. We were Tito's too... My brother just got out of school and went to apprenticeship, but he thought he was going to be a room painter and then the Germans came, they occupied us. So the Germans gave it to the Ustaš people. Ante Pavelić was the main one of those Croats."

"It was first sowed in the spring... The potatoes were planted early in the spring, they were planted in March, as early as February, end of February. The potatoes were planted and the beet was sown, in the autumn the barley was sown. And the barley, when it was in June, the barley was cut and first the barley was boiled, the barley was ground, it was put into the mill, it was ground there and it was made into bread. But mostly the corn was sown. They were always happy with the corn porridge. The cornmeal was boiled and poured with milk, and that was for breakfast, and then it was made into cornbread, yeah. And we'd have it like that in the afternoon and for dinner, it was called "kuruza", and with that we'd have maybe either a fried egg, sometimes we'd have cottage cheese, or we'd have sour milk at noon when the milking was done, so we'd have that milk in the afternoon for dinner and the kuruza and that was it."