Ing. František Randa

"The tracks, the wooden tracks they were there. And speaking of dormitories, I lived in two and then ten and we had to heat with coal there. Split the wood and in every one of those rooms you had a normal stove for heating. And such a bad experience was that the bedbugs would stick in the cracks of those wooden houses. Also when the track administration disinfected it, but still they didn't always kill the bedbugs, so we had difficulty with that then, especially at night when we were sleeping, that it would wake us up."

"We were still kind of excited as boys that there was an army mobilization the year before, in the fall of '38, and everywhere they were like moving soldiers, whether cavalry, but already mechanized units, and as a boy I remember. I can show you where they were stopping because I have a sketch of the village of Zagorje here. That's where my family cottage is, and that's where the village well was. So this is where the mechanized troops would stop and the soldiers would get out of those trucks and like refresh themselves with that water or wash themselves and especially like get out and get on those truck bodies."