Miloslav Holas

“That was already a period of political thaw, Dubček was in power, he was a great politician. Then they got rid of him, too, he did not suit them and he ended up badly. Well, these are not pleasant memories, the time when the Soviet army was temporarily here. They said that they would be here only temporarily, and then it lasted for 40 years.”

“Then I was employed in a large Jewish company in Prague, it was also in textile business. And when the Germans then stormed in there, they started closing down primarily Jewish businesses and imprisoning the Jews. But they did not make a distinction if an Aryan person or a Jewish person was employed there, they were taking all of them to the Reich for work, not matter who the person was. Well, we were two non-Jewish employees there, and we thus immediately took to our heels and we ran away without even handing in a notice, because we would not be allowed to.”