Ladislava Braná

"The apartments weren't, well, the apartments weren't that awful in Lhotka, I think Jižní Město was the worst. They moved my sister there, she was already living there with us and her family because it was a big apartment, a four-room apartment, a five-room apartment. So they got their apartment in Jižní Město, and my mother and I got a two-bedroom apartment. The apartment wasn't bad, it had a balcony, it was bright, it had that awful Bakelite bathroom, but we didn't stay there long, then they exchanged it for one in Vršovice. But it was like – suddenly you move from inner Prague to such a horrible place, where there is construction, mud, you don't know anyone there, there are no shops. Well, so it was like this..."

"That's where we were actually – my mother told me that, she told me a few things, because our printing house didn't print books, but posters, tickets, theater programs and things like that. And the Havels had the Lucerna, and they printed posters and tickets for old Mister Havel there. That's probably why they threw the machines away after the war, I don't know. Not because they were German. They were all German printing machines, which were fine, which could have been used somewhere else in a printing house, and they threw it all out onto the street."