Jarmila Cardová

"My father was then transferred to Travná. After the war, however, there were no teachers, no school. There were no buses, even though it was six kilometers to Javorník. And everything was still uncertain. Different people were hiding in the woods, so my parents were worried about me and put me in a monastery in Javorník. It used to be a convent school because the nuns were the teachers. And after the war, they put all the abandoned children from the neighborhood, who had perhaps lost their parents, into the monastery. There were a lot of us children [girls]. The book Bílá Voda was recently published, in which the author also writes about it. We didn't have a bad time there. We were treated well there. The only thing that bothered me was that we had to get up at five o'clock and at six we had to go to church to pray. It was cold there and we didn't even have proper clothes after the war. That bothered us, otherwise we had quite a good time there."

"It happened that they dropped a bomb on us when we went to church in Hustopeče on Sunday. I remember wearing white dress. A whole bunch of us went to church and some gentleman threw me into the ditch and lay on top of me. Of course I was dirty afterwards, so I came home crying that I had been thrown in the mud. The war was not pleasant. As children, we didn't really realize it, but we still experienced such things as shots being fired above us, English planes fighting with German ones."