Jiří Hübner

"That was September 1, these are the papers for that. So if not every day, then every other day there was a secret one to see if we were fighting against socialism. We were there for about six months, or maybe it didn't take that long... They came to my dad that they needed him to go to Jablonec, to Rychnov, to work as an agronomist. He said he wasn't going anywhere. So he was there for nine years, and then he was at Maxov for about two more years as head of the farm. And my mother fed the bulls in the barn. The cows and all that got moved out and there were thirty-five bulls, well, she was in charge of that."

"About two months before the war ended, this Russian woman brought us about five Russian soldiers who had escaped from the Germans. So they stayed with us for about a month, which was no fun, because if the Germans had found out, they would have shot us all. Well, and when the front was coming, they disappeared and he was with us... then she brought another one, this Julča, he was an eighteen-year-old Ukrainian, a boy named Peter, and he was with us until the end of the war, almost. Or then when they came here, he joined them."