Alica Frühwaldová

„Her aunt, my grandfather's sister, or my mother's father's sister, and her family remained in Brezno. And we visited very often. Either they came here or we went to Brezno. And my mother, whenever we went to Brezno, always said: Oh, I don't like Brezno. I always asked her: Mom, you know... We were brought up in a socialist way, to our hometown and so on. So I always asked Mom, but it's your hometown, how is it possible that you don't like going to Brezno? And then she told me, what I understood only later, that... It was still only the 50s when we went there and we went later too, only then they moved to Israel, so it was mainly the 50s. And that mother always said: You know, I'm afraid that I'll see someone in my father's coat or in my mother's dress, or that there will be a curtain somewhere or there won't be one or the window will be open and I'll see our paintings, because they were people from Brezno who were taking apart our things. And that was probably the only thing she mentioned about Aryanization and the situation that existed before.“

„Mr. Potančok brought them to the bunker. He would bring them food twice, sometimes three times a week, and they would share a little bit, they would share the food. They were practically starving. And what if they did? And then one day, in the middle of the evening, in the dark, Mr. Potančok's son Janko came running to the bunker. And he told them that they should leave the bunker because the guards had taken Mr. Potančok and someone else from Ľubietová and taken him to Bystrica, saying that they would probably interrogate him. And he didn't know if they would torture him and if he would be able to overcome the hardships and if he wouldn't tell where the bunker was. Because people had seen him going to that mountain. Even though he worked at the sawmill, they saw that he often went with a backpack and so on. So someone must have reported him. And this Janko came running to the bunker, it was around Christmas, before Christmas, and said that they should leave, because it could happen that under pressure and under that suffering, Mr. Potančok might reveal where they were. So these 12 people, after those two and a half months, because they had been there since the end of October... But it was the end of October, November, December, so after those two and a half months, they went up.“

„Nobody, not my parents, not us, not my brother, not... We were not in any party. I emphasize, not even the communist party. But my father after the war, when it seemed to him that communism would be a better solution, he said that he and his brother-in-law, my father's sister's husband, went to the workers' house. And they said that they would join the communist party. But he said that when they entered that hall and when they saw how many guardsmen there were, whom they were afraid of during the war, and when they saw them sitting in those rows and waiting to be in the communist party, they turned around and they were done with the communist party.“