Helena Juráčková

"Grandma was divorced. The grandfather left because they somehow lost all their money - I don't know if he played cards or he invested all his money in securities and didn't succeed. So he left. Grandmother with two children stayed here. My father has already married. So they somehow managed to solve it that they wouldn't have to go to Bohemia. They stayed here. But I know they mentioned that they lived on the first or second floor. And the one who left them here told them, 'You know what, so that you are not visible to some people (as you are Czechs), rather take the apartment on the fourth floor. These were somehow cooperative flats, but the size of the flat was the same, but they had the largest balcony of all. ”

"When they bombed the Apollo Refinery, they hit their house as well, because it was a short distance across the rails. Then the father went out, my mother sent him, saying, Go and see, for they live there a little. And my uncle was a shoemaker, he had a small business. So before they bombed the Apollo, he ran upstairs, probably for some money or I don't know what. And when the bombs flew, they told us, so he hid in the toilet. And when it stopped, he opened the toilet and there was a huge hole. If he was in the other half of the apartment, he would have died. He ran into the toilet and stayed alive. And then he went downstairs, and those in the cellar on that side were dead, and some of his apprentices also died, and those on that side survived. And I know that they then mentioned that those apprentices had a funeral. for two or three of them, in the Andrew's Cemetery. "

"When I was two years old, I got milliary tuberculosis. I was on an X-ray last time and I mentioned it and my sister says, 'Yes, I know what it is.' There were no medicines for that, so my father brought them to me from the London Olympics. My father told me that one of the athletes mentioned it and the people collected money [to buy me the medicine]. And those drugs were already there. He brought them from there. Streptomycin. It was not even penicillin, but streptomycin. And they gave me injections. I also said that the doctor had already said that it was too late. Because I still got smallpox in that hospital. The nun, she was there, because she is in the picture, she said: "Doctor, they bought it, brought it, so let's give it to her." I'm 74 slowly and I'm here! "

„Ja som stála na zastávke a ešte jeden pán. Ivan išiel na poobedňajšiu, lebo robil v obchode. Išla taká stará pani hore, do tých veľkých internátov, a hovorí: `Nečakajte, žiadny autobus nepríde, všade sú Rusi a Maďari. Všade je plno vojska.` Ten pán sa zobral a išiel domov, býval oproti cintorínu. Tak som aj ja išla domov a hovorím: `Ivan vstávaj, taká pani mi hovorila, že sú vojská v meste, aby som nečakala. A on, že čo počúvam starú babu. Pustil rádio a tam, že sme obsadení. My sme vtedy mali motorku Pioniera, tak sme išli do mesta. Svokra sa zobrala a išla do potravín, asi keby bola vojna, aby sme mali čo jesť. My mladí, čo sme mali v júni svadbu a oni prišli v auguste, sme sadli na motorku a išli sa pozrieť do mesta, čo sa deje. Zastavili nás Rumuni, či máme pušku. Ivo im hovorí: `Tu, na tej motorke, kde?` `Nemáte, tak môžete.` Pustili nás do mesta a všade. Pri poštou bol tank, ja som mala vtedy 22 rokov, a tam sa taká baba postavila pred neho a mávala vlajkou a kričala: Choďte domov! Ja ako krava som sa pozerala, čo sa robí. A Ivan ma odtiahol: `Poď rýchlo, veď tu môžu začať strieľať.` Tak ma chytil za ruku a išli sme do Kamzíka a potom strieľali tam hore. Tá baba ich provokovala, ale len jeho napadlo, že môžu začať strieľať aj z pušky. Ale oni potom strieľali na tú vežu a tú potom aj opravovali.”