Alena Burianová

“We took a speed train and the gestapo guys were on too and as the train stumbled, my father simply touched a German woman by accident and there was so much ado about it as they started to urge him to apologize. While my man, no of course my father... he was crazy patriotic and said he would only speak the way he can and will apologize in Czech and that is why he was transported to Theresiestadt. In three weeks we came back from canoeing down the river, as we always spent our holidays that way, and they came to arrest him to place him in Theresiestadt to the Small fortress. And as my mother used to live in Vršovice long time ago and there she had a real good friend, who still was here after war and she was dating a gestapo man of a high rank and he managed to get my father out of there in two years.”

“Yet someone leaked the information and when my father was returning, he was arrested in České Budějovice. And you may say it was a bit childish, but I was terribly angry at everything at the time. When we went to the school up the theatre, once there were four of us at the Three Crosses and there was a sign: ,With the Soviet Union for eternal times‘, that kind... So we broke the lights, which didn’t pay off as you would not believe but they tried us at court for that. So we each got two years suspended sentence. And when I tried to search the documents back in 1989 and I had acquaintance at the court, but everything was already destroyed, nothing at all left.”