Miloslava Medová

“I would like people to treat each other nicely, to help each other, so that there is no resentment among them. So, there will never be a war again. To keep our children from experiencing it, the hunger and then the misery everywhere. We should behave politely to our Earth. And not destroy it. The rainforests should not be cut down. Water is diminishing. People should save water, not to take a bath every day. We used to bathe once a week and it had to be enough. The water was heated on the stove. And in the summer, we bathed in a stream. In winter, my dad cut a hole in the race and we washed in the icy water. We were used to the cold, we did not have a flu for the whole winter, neither a running nose nor cough. Now people are too spoiled. It is this way."

“And then, when the Germans had to leave… do you know that I was ill for two weeks? I was completely sick from the fact how they had to leave after the war. The expulsion. I didn't even go to the village. I got up on the hill, we lived a bit aside. So, I watched them from a distance as they were leaving. The Germans from the surrounding villages gathered in a Sokol house in Cvikov and then had to leave by train. I was sick for fourteen days, with fever. I suddenly lost all of my friends.”