Vlasta Zezulová

"He didn't go out with me, but he had problems because they just found out and told him to get his family in order. Well, it dragged on. I even worked for two years in the army in the office and it was nice there, but I wouldn't want to work there all the time, I didn't like the environment. But it reached such a level, his persecution, that he then said: 'Please, can we do something about it? They're coming for me.' Well, and then he got seriously ill. And when he died, his superior came and said: 'Fanda knew when to leave, otherwise they would have thrown him out of the army.'"

"My father, back then in the First Republic, was somehow persuaded by the communists to join the party, so he joined the communists and thus the Hitler followers were after him. And the neighbor, the German, warned dad: 'Anton, get out of the way, they're after you.' So, dad looked for where we could run away. We were still in Slavonice, I remember that too, I saw Hitler live, he was passing through there with the army, he was standing as he got out, so I still have that image in my head. Then we were just packing, and rather fast. Well, what to pack quickly for such an escape? On the truck, and when we arrived, the customs officers were already there, as the border guards took it, the customs officers were already there. So I have a memory about that; we had a dog, he was the same age as me. The parents told me: 'Please don't bark, don't bark or they'll shoot him.' So I held the dog, his name was Valdík, and I said: 'Valdo, be quiet, or they'd kill you, me too.' So it turned out well."