Bohuslav Pavelec

"Because my first wife, who died, was Austrian, her parents were in Austria, and her aunt kept her here to be brought up. Well, she worked in a company in Jihlavan, so I talked her into it at the time. And when we were just going somewhere, she already had a green card, a foreign citizen. So there were always problems with that at the border, because they always called her, why was she going on a trip somewhere in a bus with Czech workers, we went to Hungary, for example, and so on. That's how she dealt with it a little bit of trouble with her nationality."

"And from that corner to Fybiška, there was a big wall and we lived behind that wall in such a house. They started... the Germans came, they brought prisoners who started digging ditches from that wall to the other side to the houses and they made a kind of a ditch, because a barricade was supposed to be built there. Well, they built it there, planted such strong trees on both sides and poured gravel between that; it was a kind of defence, this barricade. In addition, we as boys - the women always greased a slice of bread, they wrapped it in paper for us and we were supposed to take it to the prisoners. That they put it under our arms and we, like boys, went. When they were not looking, we dropped it in their ditch, and they hid it right away. So that's how we were acting as heroes."