Olga Dvořáková

"She [grandmother] when she worked in that bakery, they were not happy there. The family suffered a lot under the Nazis and then under the Communists they had to join that mass factory with my grandfather. She was extremely disappointed, bitter and absolutely angry. And she was working three shifts, they were old, they were about to retire. And there was one shop in Třešť and it had window almost all the way down. And it was the Stalin era, and there was a big poster of Stalin stuck behind the glass. Beard and so on. And my grandmother went on the night shift and she must've had it all figured out. She brought excrement with her. What the origin of it was, I don't know. But she had a pig, so hopefully it was the pig's poop. She went past, it was freezing, and she took the excrement and she threw it on the glass like that at that Stalin, and it stuck to his beard. And because it was freezing, so it hardened there like cement, and the next day you could see the guy who used to sweep the pavements, scraping it laboriously."

"And as soon as he [my father] arrived, it was about 1941, he got involved. He got himself a resistance activity. And it was the R3 group. There were three generals, I don't remember the names anymore, but you could find it. And besides, that group was operating in this part of the Highlands. This is Třešt' between Jihlava and Telč. And he had Major Mareček as his closest superior, and he asked him if he could carry out his action. And he said what it was. And it was this action that he was collecting money, food stamps and food that was distributed to the concentration camps that were here in Bohemia and Moravia. It was an extremely large-scale action that involved dozens of people, from pensioners to students. I know that one concentration camp that benefited from this was Svatobořice in Moravia. And my father, when he came back afterwards, had to account for everything. He got all the witnesses, who took what when, where it went, so that it was clean, that he didn't keep anything. I still have some receipts that were sent - money, he sent that from his own account. He sent it to those families who had a father or a husband in prison. He was locked up by the Germans and that family had no money. So these families received this and it was given to the concentration camps. And it's extremely interesting to read the testimonies of how they got it to the concentration camps. Who was getting it all, how they had to, for example, bribe somebody or wait who was on duty to throw it over the wall into that concentration camp. This was so well managed that the Germans didn't figure this out. And that made my father very worried that they would somehow beat it out of him."