Marta Henclová

"We thought it was stupid. Because a lot of people were shouting and they were mostly intellectuals - doctors, lawyers, professors - mostly educated people. You reminded me that we used to buy Český slovo every day, and when the Heydrich assassination campaign happened, on the first page there was a list of who had been arrested, who had been executed, and that was terrible. When I think of that, I still get chills. So it was terrible when you bought a newspaper every day and on the first page you read who had been executed. They weren't arresting, they were executing, the Germans. That was a lot of people. I know that the first thing was if I didn't know any of them."

"I walked from Smíchov to Poříčí to Bílá labuta and I remember how the Germans occupied us on 15 March. There was a motorbike with a sidecar and always three fully armed Germans on it. They had guns, maybe machine guns, I didn't know what they were then anyway. But I remember that when I was walking, people were standing along, someone was threatening, someone was crying. So on the 15th of March I was in Prague. Terrible weather, it was raining for a while, snowing for a while - and the Germans were passing through. Because the Bílá labuť was at Poříčí, I had to go through Příkopy. So I was walking along the main avenues and that's where the Germans were driving. By the time I got there, it was just Germans. I don't know how many, but I know they were always coming. Until I got to work, I kept seeing Germans."