Jiří Hatina

"Well, as far as I'm concerned. So I was probably a little lucky. I simply also applied for admission, or my parents applied for my admission to an eleven-year high school. And again an assembly met here in the village, a commission that decided whether or not to go to study. Well, now there was supposed to be such a big silence, a long one, he didn't know, no one wanted to comment on it. Well, and then one of them stood up, it was a real hard-core communist, as they say, who said, 'If he has the brains do it, then let him study.' Well, that was enough. Because no one at the time dared to oppose such a prominent party member. That's how I got to the eleven-year high school."

"I also remember when they liquidated the guerrilla cover here in the forest above the village. It was in 1944. There were four Soviet prisoners and other people here from the area. They were supported by the locals, especially from Osek as well. Well, eleven of them were executed. So it's such an experience. I remember going with my mom then, we carried a roll, my aunt's pig was being killed. And we went around the pub here and they went upstairs, in short, in a procession of exhilaration about how well it all worked out. Well, and the one Gestapo officer came to my mom and said, he saw the pig rolling board she was carrying. He said, 'I'll come to the feast this afternoon.' Oh no, that would be quite easy these days. But at the time, for a pig that was killed illegally, so-called without permission, there were really very harsh punishments."