Eva Hájková

"Then they told me I didn't say hello properly, when I wanted to go to school, like daycare. They told me that I do not say 'Good job' and I do not say 'comrade' and I say 'sir'. I said: 'Is that a wrong greeting - good day?'" - 'Only honour to work.' So I wasn't allowed to study and I was pulled over all over the communist party district, due to the fact that I didn't greet 'Honor to work' and that I was evasive - I didn't join the Youth Union, no one got me there."

"Once, when we were in the garden, there was an air raid. We couldn't go anywhere, so we were there and we heard such a roar of planes as they buzzed. We saw how the sky sparkled and such tinsel fell down just like the ones up on a Christmas tree; silver papers made of tinfoil on strips. They were falling from the sky; planes were dropping it so that the Germans would not aim or shoot at them. They flew somewhere else, they did not bomb anything, but it was a giant roar. And the sky glittered much. We then ran down the street and collected the tins, whatever we could take."