Dagmar Čondlová

"When I woke up on the morning of August 21, I heard a terrible noise, I still hear it, ‘Citizens, keep calm! Citizens, keep calm! Citizens, there is no war, but the Allied armies have come to free us! ‘And I was very surprised, as I was terribly afraid of what was happening. But I had a feeling that the boys were watching a movie on TV, it never occurred to me that it was real, so I - because I slept alone in the room - I climbed out and asked, 'Guys, what are you looking at in the morning? Just like TV? After all, we have to play tennis! 'And they said to me,' The war has started. Come look out the window, there are tanks and the war has started. 'Well, I was crying at that moment, I was shaking all over. And really, there were some armed cars, tanks in the streets under the windows, and it was just a terrible experience."

"I didn't believe at all that the water could get to our house. My parents lived next door, right next to me, and they said that the water would definitely not reach so high, and they refused to leave the apartment. And the next morning I saw that the water really had to be in the apartment, that it was already quite high and there were firefighters on the boat... So reached out to them in order to save my parents. They had to take a boat here through the manor garden that is associated with our gardens. They had to cut the fence to get there at last, but in the end they got them out on a boat."