Růžena Šorejsová

“In 1989 we did not know what was going on, and I was specifically at the shop next to the grocery store, next to the Hrozen hotel. And all of a sudden, here came the Pragers putting their revolutionary posters up in the shop. Now we did not know what was going on, we were afraid of something like that... Next to us was a man, what was it called? In the shop, we still say hello today, when we meet, he worked in the food section, he was tall, so we both used to sweep the walkways together, no one else did, when it was cold, so we always scratch the ice on the sidewalk. Suddenly he had the posters up and we did too. Now we were looking at it, he did and his wife too, he a tall guy, surely they are still alive, as back then they were young. So we tore it off. We were afraid what it was, what was coming and what was going to happen to us. Only later there were news and all. Then I remember it was terribly cold in the winter, when we were in the square as we walked into the club, so there was a gathering, also the doctor called Rakouská made a speech, she was up on stage, so we were just listening for a while. And there was a snack shop at the top, where the food store is now, so there was snack shop selling a kind of refreshment goods.”

“Well, as I told you, the Germans supported the farming so it was a nice work. The year 1924 was supposed to go into the Reich, it was my husband and my sister, and they did not have to go as they worked in agriculture, so they left them be. Supplies were so low that they could be easily fulfilled. Of course we were not allowed to make our own butter; everything was supposed to be given away to the state. But we used to make the butter; we had two churns, we were beating the butter in the dark at night and we left the churn in the elder bushes, because if anyone accidentally came into our house, it would not get found. And there was the butter. We produced a lot, but all was supposed to go. But, of course, we make it for our own consumption needs, and as I say, many people used to come for milk from us. Among others the gendarmes from Hradiště, as I mentioned.”