Zlata Erbanová

"We lived in Gorazdova Street and future president Havel lived close by, almost next door just around the corner on the embakment. He read lectures in a pub in Gorazdova Street about how things should be. That was fantastic; it was always packed and I don't know how they did it but the police never raided the place or anything, and he just lectured there. That was lovely."

"I still had a mother and a father who used to be a lawyer and then had to work as a labourer after the war because he allegedly was an exploiter. When one lady in our house found out, seeing him going to the factory one morning, she said, 'If you're an exploiter, I'll go crazy'. See, he was a decent lawyer and helped people who didn't have money with anything they needed legally."