Marcela Pustinová

"My mom wasn't home; I was home, and they took him [my dad] away. Then I ran to a friend with whom we had good contacts, and I said, 'Mr Vozár, they took dad, where do you think he went?' He said, 'Of course they took him to Malacky to the National Committee.' I said, 'I want to go see him.' He said, 'Sit down' and drove me there. I remember I found my father. The doorman said, 'Go round the corner. I went around the building.' There was a little coal window in the basement; that's where he was. I said, 'Dad!' He said, 'Tell Mum this and this and this.' I guess it was a good thing I went in there. Mum was angry, but not so angry since I brought her a message from Dad. I found him there."

"I have a letter from the national committee: 'If you do not move out in a week, you will be forcibly detached.' Mum did what she could. They gave us a municipal hut with a dirt floor. Mum put a Persian carpet on it because she had nothing else. The house has always had parquet floors. The Dokupils were progressive: parquet floors, bathroom, they tried to furnish both the factory and the apartment. The only one who helped my mother was her father. If there were ever controversies between my daughter and my grandson, I told them, 'Listen, I never heard my mother call my father anything other than daddy in my life. He was the only one who came from Czechia and helped my mother move into the little hut. I guess they put the other stuff in storage somewhere. Then Mum rebelled and they let us use a villa. They gave us a room and a kitchen, and mum and I got very much in the way there. Mum got angry, had everything packed up and we left for Plzeň where my grandfather and grandmother lived. They had a room and a kitchen. They gave us the room and used the kitchen."