Marta Křížová

“Liberation by the famous Soviet army, when they were really welcomed warmly. People took soldiers to their families, invited them to lunch, and it was so honest. People showed gratitude. It didn't last very long. But in those days after the war, that's how it was. At the end of the war, I remember when there was the Prague Uprising. When Pankrác was burning, we watched it. Dad was laying a big white sheet up here with the men on the hill so they could drop some weapons from the planes to go to the barricades. But we were already so far away, so we more or less just observed what was happening. We didn't experience it directly.“

„It was marked enough. Dad was soon fired because he worked at Mannesmann in a high post as a deputy director. Then he ended up in a warehouse. The neighbors across the street were closed again, the whole family. A classmate at school had his mother locked up. We were overwhelmed by such fear of what was happening in the 1950s. Even when a person was a child, he perceived it because one could see what was happening around him.“