Ing. Jiří Lustig

"I was too young to have any relationship with him. I know he went to tennis. To me, he was an older gentleman who wore a racket under his cassock because he said, 'You know, those grandmothers don't like to see that.' He played there for a while and then he left. Then the Bolsheviks arrested him, he was interned here in Želiv."

"I carried a kind of, I don't know, a kind of syndrome from that war, that I was quite afraid, because the protectorate had left some traces in me. It's expressed in all sorts of ways. Some people have it worse, some people, like Ota Pavel, are even nervous about it. But these syndromes that stay with you... For me, it was that I should have behaved more often, much braver, and not given in to the jerks."

"There were sometimes anti-Semitic attacks in Týnec. For example, we used to skate under the castle, like today's Za Blátem, and we played hockey there. I was fired of there by some jerk from the Aryan Fight or the Flag, such fascists, saying that I was a Jew and had no business there. But I would say that in Týnec these were rather isolated excesses, otherwise my classmates or the neighborhood, and even my mother, helped me a little."

"When the war was coming, there was a lot of discussion about whether to move out in some way. But where? He didn't want to take anyone then either. Or run away? Which also, because I was small and my mother still had my sister from her first marriage, who was about ten years older, it was very complicated. My dad dealt with it up until his last days, but in the end nothing came of it."