Jaromíra Buřtová

"Now we were going home. The worst view was in Jihlava. There was no highway then, but this hill above Jihlava, there were these tanks pointed at Jihlava - crazy! Then in Mělník we got mixed up. Those guys from Russia, young guys, you could see they were hungry and thirsty, nobody gave them anything. I had a co-worker here, he lived in Brandov - I only found that out later. He wanted to bring a pram from Germany, that's what they used to go there for. He told me that they had agreed that at night the Germans - they were probably relatives - would bring the pram to Brandov to the stream. But the tanks were coming, and he told me that they were under the bridge with the pram, and the tanks were driving over them. I didn't find that out until twenty years later from that co-worker. And right here in Jiřetín, a tank smashed up part of a house. I think its brakes failed, or what do I know, it hit a corner of the Maule house."

"There was a Parkhotel on that lake. All the children's performances, balls, culture [took place] in the Parkhotel. And it had a hall inside, a restaurant. And outside there was a dance floor and a kind of gazebo where they hid the furniture in the winter. That was beautiful! We even went from Albrechtice to Jezeří to practice."