Jindřiška Fialová

"The JZD [farm cooperatives] started, so dad joined one too, but then he left because the pay was untenable. My mother earned like a crown a day. Her norm was a unit per day, and they paid her a crown per unit. She worked very hard, like spreading manure in the fields. So, dad got out, but they made him rejoin because people said, 'If Tesárek is out, we'll get out too', so it eventually reformed. My parents came to Hodkovice; then the coop in Jeřmanice was closed down and a state farm was formed. They didn't want the workforce so much and wanted my father to move all the way to the border."

"A man came to this little cottage by the woods, pretending to be wounded. The lady, their name was Weiss, she nursed him for two weeks. He left after two weeks, but came back that same day with the Gestapo and wanted to take the family away. She said, 'But I was nursing you. You stayed sick at my house.' 'Now, since you nursed me, you must have nursed the partisans as well.' There are deep forests around and the partisans stayed in the woods during the war. The lady was pregnant, and they took her and her husband away and set their house on fire."