„Then, when the Warsaw Uprising was happening, I saw a lot of them taking us to a concentration camp. We went through the end of Warsaw, there was a station and there we boarded those trains. The uprising was actually over, so they took people to a concentration camp and to the Germans. And I saw so many dead people, so many murdered people who were being burned. These are some of the worst memories. So that's when I said I would never become a doctor.“
„And then they came back to me when the Russians were here. Being in Slaný we were close, thirty kilometres from Ruzyně. And I woke up at three in the morning and said, 'Occupation, something's going on.' My husband said, 'No, it's an exercise.' But they were not bombers, they were planes loaded with tanks. The tanks were just leaving from the airport. And those dreams, you could say, still haunt me sometimes. It was a disappointment, it was a terrible disappointment.“
Eugenia Oktavia Dvořáčková was born at the end of 1929 in Warsaw. Memories of the war are deeply traumatic for her. Their house was hit by a bomb, fortunately everyone survived buried in the basement. After the Warsaw Uprising, she saw piles of corpses at every turn. The experience of the war came back to her until the end of her life, especially after the occupation of 1968. She married the Czech textile engineer Alexei Dvořáček and went with him to Czechoslovakia. Her husband became the director of the Benar spinning mill in Slaný, but was fired for disagreeing with the entry of the Warsaw Pact troops. He then started as a worker in the Ostrava steelworks. In the year of filming the interview (2016), the witness also lived with her husband in Ostrava.
