Václava Buriánová

"That was lucky, that job was lucky for us that went there. Because at least we had food there at noon, we got normal food. That was the good thing, that we at least got normal food." ("And did you also get contact with the civilian workers?") "No, we were only like that in the hall, only when they brought it there, but otherwise no, nothing at all, no contact with the civilians. The female guard was always there with us in that big hall, or two were there as well, maybe. But they didn't really pay much attention to us, so we could chat amongst ourselves. That's who I was standing next to once - because we were standing at work - next to two older ladies, they were... One was a doctor, one was a professor. And they'd been there for four years... no, over two years, these women. That's when we, when we could chat for a while, when she was completely gone or going for a walk, our female guard - and they were convicted together with their husbands. Those husbands got terrible twenty years or so, they were all educated men too, and they helped some of a train to go through. The freedom train, well." ("In 1951.") "They just helped it, so the women paid for it too, of course. They got terrible years, the husbands, they got about twenty years each. And the wives got a lot too, about ten years."