Mgr. Jenovéfa Kůrová

"Basically, my mother first taught in Slovakia as a young teacher. Young teachers from Bohemia and Moravia were sent there, because Slovakia was very backward and, of course, it showed in the education system, so my mother, among othes in Poprad. She explained that to us, she had eighty children in a single class there. Eighty children! And in one class, that meant that children went there from the first to the x-th grade, but they usually went there to the fifth, because their parents didn't let them continue, they had to work."

"It was almost after the war, and four dads from Těsná Street agreed to go get some meat, because they all had children the same age as we were. So our dad somehow got tangled up and missed the meeting, so he didn't come back and came back home. And these four, names - Brabenec… guys, I forgot the names, but Brabenec it was for sure, he had a son as old as my younger brother, so he even went to class with him. And now I forgot, I'm sorry, the names of the other three, but I may remember. Well, remnants of the Germans caught them somewhere in the city, and in fact the people had to build various barricades like that, and in the end [the Germans] killed them."