Krystyna Zangová

“We came to a shop and there were not any bread, any coffee and there was no sugar. There were empty racks there, there were ten boxes of pasta, two packs of rice, my mum took out some stamps from her wallet, she used to do the shopping with them, she had ration stamps and it was a crying shame. When I came there with my children and they said: ‘Grandma, we would like a sweet. ‘- And she could not buy them the sweets.”

“We did not know all the words. Some words are homonyms, so they made fun us. A boy came to me and told me: ‘Do you have any scissors please?‘ (She probably understood “legs” - trans.) So I told him that I had two. And he wanted scissors. So we laughed at it. And then I told him that I did not have any scissors and that he should go and fuck them (she used the word “šukat” which in Polish means “to look for” but in Czech “šukat” means “to fuck” - trans.). And it was really… Because we did not know what the word meant and they though that we were really vulgar. Then we asked them what it meant and we laughed at it many times. It was hilarious.”