Kateřina Spurná

“As you asked about jobs... We were thinking that we didn't need to go to school, as after that, if you wanted to remain a decent human being, you couldn't get a proper job anyway. So we were thinking that we didn't need to graduate from secondary school anyway. That if we would work hard, we would earn ourselves a living. So that was the easy part. And my class teacher told me: 'Kateřina, one day, you will regret it, that you didn't graduate.'”

“Well, all the time we had almost no money, and I remember that when my mother wanted to get me a new dress, she had to make it herself. In fact I still don't know how to shop properly. Back then the shops were just empty. I don't remember a single occasion of me and my mother going shopping together. That was just crazy.”