Jitka Lišková

„I had an excellent school report but no job. They gave me a bad employee record so a lady engineer told me: ‚Jitka, you cannot even feed cows, it is not possible.‘ We had an accountant, who was really good and said: ‚I´ll give you advice, go to Slapy. They wrote us they need a graduate.‘ So I went to Slapy near Tábor. Well mum had to borrow me money to travel. And to save money I went on foot from Tábor. I came there and the boss told me they have no graduate´s job anymore. And I replied: ‚You know what? My employee report is so bad, apparently I cannot feed cows.‘ And he said: ‚You know what, I will let you know in a week. You´ll be working manually for three months as per usual and we´ll see then.‘ I ended up working there for nine and a half years.“

„They found a couple of skins, while looking after the people, who they arrested, they found skins. They´d tear the floor up on the roof and found skins dag up since Hitler´s times. And also letters written by my uncle Rudolf to my aunt from Argentina. The secret police guy himself claimed that it´d easily make a whole book, how well it was written. Our dad, there was such disillusion, as he worked real hard all his life, and didn’t have much out of it and in the end all that mattered was to be named Schönbach, to get locked for half a year.“

„So once I went dancing. And a boy came to ask me to dance and his mother came to fetch him, saying: ‚You won´t dance with the criminal´s daughter!‘“