Marie Velíšková

"But the atmosphere of fear, it was there. It hung over everything. It was really very unpleasant, the conditions of the war. Well, and to Úsov - so there, as I said, on that sidewalk, as you walked on, there was the Schulz shop. They were an older couple, and they used to walk arm in arm, as it was called, linked together, which no one in the village did back then, it was from the old world. But they—so elegant! They were terribly nice people, they were Jews, but terribly nice. They had a textile shop. They were great, such good people. And also afterwards they were still putting away, saving, as they saw that the Germans started to rampage. And then they were also putting things away. Because they knew that when the Germans started to rampage, they knew that they would come after them too, that they would come after them. They knew it. The horror had already fallen on them. So they even took some things to us, to the Strakas, like some textiles, or some of this. And they said if we don't come back, it's yours." "So you hid it for them." "Yes." "And how did that work out?" "Well, badly. Badly." "Did they take them away?" "We had a remembrance of them."