Ludmila Mikušková

"As far as I know, my oldest sister supported our neighbors, who had a lot of children and their father was a partisan. They always had somebody there, somebody injured at home." - "What were their names, do you remember?" - "They were also Žák family, they were our family, second cousins. Partisans were treated there and one of them was there for a very long time, he was very ill. They helped him and he was cured. Then they were able to go home."

"It was the same, when we had to bring the application forms to the principal. I used to bring them to him too and everyone was going on about how the principal was refusing the people and didn't want them to leave the form there. So I prepared what I was going to tell him. I told myself I wouldn’t let anyone tell me what to do. He didn't say anything to me, he must have known I had a very glib tongue or something, because he only said something as I was leaving. As I was opening the door from the principal's office, he said, 'If you change your mind, come and get it,' so I could take it back. That was it. I was so ready to tell him what I had prepared beforehand, but I didn't say anything, as he didn't say anything and didn’t try to persuade me at all. I didn’t let him convince me. When one has to live in what they’ve grown up in and appreciates it..."