PhDr., PhD. Ľubica Droppová, rod. Markovičová

“When she came back from the investigations, she was always exhausted. Usually, someone would pick her up by car, so we were scared of every car that stopped by our house. At that time, there were not so many cars like nowadays. But she had to walk all the way back, so she was exhausted not only mentally but also physically. She would wrap a scarf around her head. That helped her for headaches. She would only tell us this: ‘It is a mistake. It is a big mistake. There must be some explanation for this. It will certainly be explained.’ But there has never been any explanation.”

“We had to go to village Ľubietová, because it could have been very dangerous, especially for my father. We were in the village and my father was somewhere, I think, in a cottage in the forest. But even there, it was not very safe. From time to time my mum would go to the edge of the village in the evening, and my father would come back from the forest so they could meet. But gradually, even for those people, at whose places we stayed, it was getting dangerous. They did not like us being there anymore. We felt it a bit, too, especially my mother. I remember that once, when the Germans began coming to Slovakia, she said that they should finish off the uprising. She used to say that Germans are only human as well. She spoke perfect German, so she would reassure them that she could talk to them, but in the end it did not work. Even my father was scared, because in that cottage in the forest he felt that he posed a danger for others. Because all the others were only ordinary inhabitants of the village; he was the only one who they would look for. So we had to return, but it was complicated.”