Naděžda Kantová

"Well, when there was a war, I was actually small, Dad was locked up. He was... I was three years old, so they locked him up for having flyers like the Germans and alike. Well, they locked in a lot of people there, like, I remember my mom and I were going to the city, to the village, and watching them being taken away by truck.”

"We always ran away or we went to Petrovice in the fields. And there used to be like fields and always large lanes, so we lay below those lanes. And there were more of us from the village. And the adults told us not to say anything else, or else they would shoot us. Well, the Germans left Třebíč, via Okříšky to Jihlava, and they always set something on fire... they got into a truck, for example, and set the passengers on fire. The tanks were burning along the way, it was just banging, we were crouched, we didn’t say a word. And when we stuck our heads out a little, our parents always pushed us down so that we wouldn't be seen."