Ludmila Fejtová

"My parents were the last ones to join the cooperative, or to be graciously accepted there, so there was already a tractor in Kunemil. And the farmers who came there before that, they had their horses there. They worked for the cooperative. Our horses were no longer needed in the cooperative. So my dad had to take his friends who had helped him most of his life of farming - the horse was the farmer's best friend, so he had to take them to slaughter himself. There was a slaughterhouse in Světlá, Daddy took them there himself, he had to tie them up, and before they went to slaughter, Fuks gave him the last whinny. So Daddy came home to us, and I wonder to this day that he didn't hang himself on the first tree there, because it must have been horrible."

"The first two years I had Mr. Pipek as principal and then Mr. Kohout came in. He was a communist cadre, he had a badge and everything. And I was a kulak kid. He looked at me the same way he looked at the other kids, but I knew that when I would be in the fifth grade there would be consequences."