Tomáš Kulka

"Right after the war, my dad along with Ota Kraus - the father of Jan Kraus - decided that prior to looking for a job, they had to give a testimony. And really, their book The Death Factory was the first written testimony about Auschwitz. I think it was published in January 1946. My father then carried on, wrote another book with Ota Kraus and devoted practically all of his life to the memory of people who were murdered in Auschwitz, as much as to the 1963 Frankfurt trials."

"While at a summer job in the kibbutz, we received the news of the Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia. We didn't want to believe it; we thought it was nonsense. I still have a fresh memory of Bertík waking us up, saying: 'Get up, guys, the Russians are in Prague.' We told him: 'Bertík, you and your radio...' It took us a while. We were after a hike and wanted to sleep. At nine in the morning, we went to have breakfast and saw all the Czechs from the kibbutz sitting by the radio and giving us looks. After a while, we came to believe it was true. It was a shock, of course. Part of the Literary Papers editorial board was in a kibbutz: Petr Pithart, Ivan Hartel, Chudožilov... After the invasion, all Czechoslovaks gathered in the kibbutz Kfar Masaryk, where they published the Literary Papers statement."

"Does Israel have a future at the current situation?" - "In my opinion, it doesn't. The occupation can't take forever. Unless there is a two-state solution, and if the Palestinians are given a right to vote, there will be no Jewish state. That argument used by the left from the very beginning, is still valit: either the state won't be Jewish or it won't be democratic." - "The possibility of two states is very distant for many reasons." - "It's not on the table. I wouldn't mind that but the reality is changing. Every once in a while, they build a new settlement at the West Bank - the territory which should be at the core of the talks. This was always Netanyahu's policy; he was never serious about the two-state solution."