Dagmar Holečková

"At that time, there were agitators from the national committee, comrades, who asked us what we wanted to do and such. I was just saying that I would like to go to the gymnasium or the conservatory. She looked at me and said: 'Well, that you're aiming pretty high. What's your daddy?' And I said: 'Why? A tailor. He has a trade licence.' ,Mmm, one can see that in you too.' You may not believe me, but I at that moment, when someone talked like that about my dad, I slammed the table and shouted: 'What do you see in me?' And I turned round and left, tears were flowing down like that. And she shouted after me that I must be reeducated by the working class."

"And then there was the revolution. I remember that we had to go to shelters. Otherwise, at that time even before the May, there were a lot of air raids, so we spent a lot of time in the basement. And in the last days, my mother didn't put me to bed. I I had a younger sister who was born in January 1945, so I was lying there dressed. As soon as the sirens started, we immediately rushed to the basement."