Helena Grégrová

"Daddy had a list made; he had a huge library and he didn't know what he was going to do with all the furniture and everything... He knew old Gregor who was to become my later father-in-law later on. Eduard Grégr was born in 1900 and knew my father through legal stuff. Dad told hm he didn't know what to do with all the furniture. That was in 1952. Old Grégr said, "I have a son, he is twenty-one and has his driver's licence, and we own a Tatra car." His son Ed, the one with the licence, was my husband man. That's how I met my husband. He was nine years older, he was twenty-one. I was twelve.... They had some kind of paper warehouse... He used to drive the car over the Legion Bridge to Hlubočepy where he and my dad would stack it all inside. Then maybe someone would come to buy something. That's how it was."

"[Father] despaired about what we were going to do and where we were going to stay. Our grandmother in Školská said immediately: 'Don't worry about the girls, they will live here!' But my parents were banned from Prague. Where were they supposed to go? They had nothing; they had left lots of beautiful furniture and silver back in the apartment. That night, I thought I was going to lose my parents. "Who made the decision that they had to move out?" We had nothing but the piece of paper. "Is this a letter from some national committee?" It's the National Committee of Prague 1. "So they just said that you're leaving?" "Yes."