Jan Isop

"One more memory. There was a rather large barracks in Slany. And there was a field in front of it, and there was corn. When you walked along the road and looked, the gun barrels were just peeking out of the corn. We used to bring newspapers to the soldiers in those days because they were uninformed. They didn't know what was going on. We used to bring them the independent newspapers that were published then. I don't remember which one it was. So we used to bring them newspapers secretly and put them over the fence so they would know what was going on. Because nobody knew what was going on."

"At home my parents were afraid, they didn't even want to tell us kids what to do. We saw it, we could empathize with it. I knew my parents' views, I knew them, we didn't talk about it much, but I had the same views. But at that time it was difficult in a way that if you wanted to live and you wanted to do something... I, for example, resisted for a long time to get into any associations. At that time, first it was the CSM, then it was the SSM and things like that, the youth associations. Well, so I avoided it. On the other hand, I was lucky that nobody wanted me to go anywhere, because they knew my background. So I had peace in that matter."