Eva Dlouhá

"And it's a fact that we were really there at seven o'clock in the morning, sitting there, sleeping, or at five o'clock we were already sitting in the waiting room, frozen like pretzels. I went to throw up, I was sick. The kids were laughing at me, my siblings, what I was doing, and we were waiting for this little train to take us to the booths. Those were the wooden huts where the torturers were. Well, we stood there for a while, about 15 minutes, these were these cubicles, I remember cubicles. A little window now. I couldn't see my dad, they had to put me up. My brother always picked me up to give my dad a kiss. Mum always said, 'And give him chocolate.' That didn't exist. We weren't even allowed to give him flowers. We'd all cry and then it was the end of the visits and we'd go. We went home."

"The four years I was there, my dad got locked up, they took our store away, of course. Now they took away - my mum had to pay - but she told me all that [or they told it] when they were talking to my grandmother or somebody - maybe my older sister or brother told me as a girl - that they took away the shop. At four years old, I don't remember much about my dad because I was just a little girl. Basically, it didn't even bother me [then] that I didn't have a dad. Except then when I came to school, it was only when they started a little bit that I had my dad locked up that I was a little bit of a mess. So I knew what was going on. And I know that my mother used to say to my grandmother, 'Take the children, they're coming to arrest Dad.' She always told that, so we went so we wouldn't know anything, and that men came with machine guns and they came to arrest Dad... And that was also the Hodkov people. We even knew the names, it was ugly. Well, they came like they were arresting the biggest criminal. Actually, they were criminals against our country... Traitors."