Jaroslav Šíma

„In the review at the training facilities (where he was employed), when I was already here, one of the questions were, whether we agree with the Warsaw pact armies entering the Czechoslovak territory. I said: ‚We agree, don´t agree. We do not know, why we should agree. Nothing was happening here, so why did they even come?‘ ‚Comrade, you don´t know, what was going on?‘ ‚We did not notice anything around sport and here within the training youth I do not know of anything happening, no manifestations, nothing at all.‘ But then I felt it. An evaluation stated it on paper: ‚Undesirable for worker´s youth education.‘ So it was there, that was the result, but otherwise I got into conflict with nobody regarding such issue.“

„I experienced a night raid, woke up at night and we were not running away. My mum did everything possible I remember. The radio was on, though it was not allowed, she also took my father´s violin and played it although she could not play much. Everything not to hear the rumbling form outside, as it was very loud. You felt it in Kolin or Pardubice, everything was shaking. Well we survived…“