Roman Watzinger

"I discovered a smokehouse down by the playground. So I opened it up and found that there were sausages hanging up and smoking. Well, of course, some sausages, because there was no such thing to eat at home, so I just took a few. And we used to go to Vinohrady, the bunch of us that used to play that football, and we shared them there. You weren't allowed to bring anything home, because that would be a problem. And one time there weren't even sausages, but there was a big smoked leg, and I took the leg, put it under my shirt like this, burned my whole belly, and we split the leg up in Vinohrady, and we had a good time."

"The essentials were loaded and off we went. In October, it was drizzly and we drove towards Šumná, then towards Blížkovice. At about five o'clock, it was getting dark, a soldier came on a motorcycle and announced: 'Get the wagons back immediately. We're going to liquidate the army in the area that won't be seized.' So what was done was simply that they put everything we had on the wagon in the ditch between Šumna and Štítara. Well, and my mother was now in charge of what to do next. So she picked herself up and walked to the border to see my father what to do. And we stayed there - two sisters and me. It was drizzling, so to keep us out of the rain, we had an open closet and we just survived there all night, and my mother didn't come back until about four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, and she came in with a coachman and a ladder truck."