Alois Matěj

"It could have been in the forty-first or forty-second year. Where there is a pub in Bartoňov, so there is another street next to the road and there were four or five farms there - the Janek family, the Šimek, the Haintl, the Matys, the Diviš families. So the Haintl, the Matys and the Diviš families, those three farms were confiscated by the Germans and occupied by Germans from somewhere in Romania. So those three farms were already occupied by the Germans after the year 1938."

"Bread was made at home. Once every 14 days there was a bread trough. A bit of dough was left from the last baking, it was called sourdough, a little water was poured over it and it was left until morning. In the morning, or I think in the evening, my mother, to make it rise, added flour and made dough and in the morning she rolled the dough into two loaves of bread [and put them] into big round straw baskets. By that time I was already going to school in Ruda (nad Moravou), and as an older boy I would take the bread to Ruda by a wheelbarrow. It was baked there, the wheelbarrow was left standing by the baker´s, and when school was over I would stop there and bring the bread home. Those two loaves of bread were for 14 days. And not like today, it didn't harden and lasted 14 days."