Jarmila Černá

"I was enthusiastic about the Red Cross, I started at the gymnasium at the age of eighteen, when a lady came to us in Brno and agreed with the principal that she would visit the classes. She came to class and said: 'I'm from the Red Cross, we do first aid courses, the so-called...' Hey, I don't know anymore, it's out of my head now, never mind. 'First aid courses, we are recruiting blood donors.' And the third thing, I think it was the two things. Well, I came home to ask at home that the parents must agree. So, I was eighteen, right? I started the octave at eighteen and until nineteen. Just as I came home and excitedly unloaded - the lady was there and so on. I say, go to the course, yes, of course you can. And as for donating blood, no, it wouldn't do you any good, you're going to be a mom one day and you really don't know what it's going to do and so on. It's developing now, I know, and mom and dad said no. Okay, so I signed up for the course, I did the 20-hour basic course first, I liked it. So I had another course for medical groups, where we also did competitions and various stuff like that. And then I even did a course for volunteer nurses."

“Well, the Slovak state practically wanted to be clean - without any Jews or Czechs. And they also shouted it when the parades went by. I remember that - parades passed around our barracks, we lived in the so-called legio houses, because my father was a legionnaire, so he got an apartment there. And around our barracks there were simply processions shouting: 'Czechs, Jews, out! Czechs, Jews, out!' And they also sang: 'For twenty years they have annoyed us with Czech, cut and cut into blood, it won't be the first time. As long as the Slovak is the master in Slovakia!' That's the only thing I remember. Otherwise, I don't remember how it started, yeah.”