Antonín Lamplot

"The police arrived, two cars of uniformed and secret policemen arrived, and we were standing in the kitchen, all against the wall, one of them was guarding us. And they spent the whole afternoon going around the house, and every compartment or little drawer in the cupboard, those were thrown out, they even messed up the beds. And at that time, it was well known that they would always put something somewhere, like a gun, and that became a pretext for arrest and eviction. That was in August, in 1951. That was the first time they came to us. And then it happened again when they evicted the Zrůst family in the spring of '52. We had a visit like that, too. That just... that was fear."

"In the evening, it was about seven o'clock, a truck arrived. They were given about two hours to move out. They had time to load their things, and they were forced to leave. We were neighbours, the Trnka's were neighbours, so we ran over there and we were helping them. Some furniture, some small pieces, whatever we were able to pack [onto the truck]. I think it was Paclík´s car transport from Polička. At that time it had already been nationalized. And I remember vividly that Mrs. Zrůstová wanted to catch a goose, and the two men stopped her, saying that it had to stay there. And then they took each some geese and ate them, like [they took] everything else. Those were very sad moments."