Jana Voborníková, rozená Bělinová

My grandma had a sewing machine, but just for women's things. Well, the Germans came when they were in troubles, they just walked from a house to a house and they were looking for somebody who could benefit them and forced my grandmother to sew military backpacks and those thick coats on that machine. And as Grandma also did resistance, so she said, "Well, this machine won't make it, it won't sew it, I can't, it's for light fabrics." Well they said that she has to. Well, of course, that the next day she went there, that she sewed it, she showed them that she tried it a bit and she couldn't make it. And they wanted a confirmation. So the machine had to go to a repairman. So, the repairman who sold the machines came and had to take it in with him. And there was nothing wrong to the machine, but he issued a confirmation that the machine really can't sew. So she gave them the sign there and she could rest for a while. This was the way how people with small things tried not to yield to the situation.