Naděje Nováková

"Nothing was available, everything was on tickets, we couldn't buy anything. They were, everything was ticketed. It wasn't much, only the children got milk, a sixteenth a day. So you can imagine how we always had to hide it and take it week by week to have milk. Bread, well, literally everything. And then there were these unidentified ration coupons, and they would always announce what could be bought with them—pears or something like that."

"The Hitler Youth, the young people of Hitler, attended school. They always rolled out at that time when I was going, and they had these black pants, red shirts, hakenkreiz on it, and daggers behind their waist, they had daggers. And geez, I was always scared. Because when it was cast, I wore this little white cap with embroidery on it, and you weren't allowed to have anything that was red, blue and white. And I had it embroidered in red, blue and white. So they ripped it off me, so I was scared of them."