Anna Blašková

"He was tall, he wrote books. Then he ran away, he had to run away, because he was Tis's companion. So he ran away, but Tis was caught. He ran away to America, and then they felt there, he was a high-ranking priest, but they felt such nostalgia for home there, then the holy father, I don't know which pope it was. The eleventh or the twelfth? He freed them from that attachment to the church. That they no longer had to remain celibate, so then he got married. He also had two sons, and they also now, not now, long ago, It's been ten years. They were at my mother's sister's funeral. It's been more than that, I don't remember exactly. Those sons there, that they have white technology all over America, that they are entrepreneurs. And what did he actually do? Was he a historian? He also wrote books. He was also friends with Dominik Tatarko, the writer. They simply fought so that the Slovaks would finally be something. Well, in the end, it turned out that they followed through, that they promised themselves to Hitler. Do you know? And then the Slovaks suffered for it. For wanting to be more like Czechs. That they wanted to have their homeland. Yes, and he taught in Bratislava? Or where? He was in Bratislava. He was highly, highly educated. Yes, he had to teach when he was a university professor."

"Because my mother's cousin was a university professor, associate professor. He was ordained at the tomb of St. Peter and he had connections with Štefánik. So also because Štefánik was once, my mother's cousin Polakovič had a house like that in the garden. And Štefánik also came there. Mama as such a little girl, quite tiny that they, they didn't want anybody to go into that room there. So Mama carried what they needed in there. She was such a little girl, but I don't remember exactly, just that she was quite tiny, that they told her : Be careful not to spill it. Because they didn't want someone else there to hear or something, I don't know. And what was the cousin's name? Štefan Polakovič."