Aglaia Morávková

"He wasn't allowed to produce anymore because that was sent out, they put hallmarks on the products that it was real gold, right. And he wasn't allowed to produce anymore. But he was producing - without hallmarks, for the people. And some old man used to come and sit in his shop, it was in the square, he used to rent a room, daddy, now they have some art objects or something. And he used to sit there and apparently, he was the spy, well."

"But the experience was terrible at the end of the war, when they threw the Germans out of the republic. So there was a group in one inn that they sent away. And my mother found out how terrible it was. There was some sick baby, so mum brought clothes and a baby sleeping bag, just trying to help. And the horrible experience: we had... we had... mum used to have maids afterwards because she was going away and she didn't want us to be alone all the time. Or she would teach at home, she had Tanzsaal and she would teach at home. So we had a maid to help mommy. They used to steal from her, because mummy had all sorts of dresses and silk stockings for the dances, so they always stole that. And this one was German, so she spoke Czech, because otherwise I wouldn't have understood her. And they just wanted her to... They let her help mother for a while and then they'd take her away. I listened to all this and I was so angry at my parents for not keeping her, for not saving her. And she was crying and begging us to keep her as a maid. But then they took her away." ("Didn't they want to keep her, parents?") "I guess they couldn't. I guess it wasn't possible, they just pushed the Germans away and I guess it wasn't possible."