Lubomír Malíšek

"I remember that when I still used to ride my bicycle at the beginning of the pedagogical school in Hejčín, that there was a school in a part of the monastery, then it became, I think, a hospital, and that the nuns were taken there and we saw them from the corridor as they were walking and singing some religious song - what kind, I don't know. For a certain period of time when we went there, there was a convent together with a pedagogical school. Then when they took them away, and when they took the students of theology away from Žerotín Square, then we moved the school - the classrooms and everything - to Žerotín Square in Olomouc, and the school was next to the Michael Church."

"During the war, when the bombing was regularly repeated and the siren sounded, we would go to the shelter. Everywhere on the shelter there was a sign that said LSR, luftschutzraum, pejoratively the Czechs called it: 'the Russians are climbing here' [Lezou sem Rusi - Czech joke for LSR], so you had to take a container of water and a bag made of some kind of cloth, in which there was already quite unavailable proper bread cut into small squares, dried. In the event of being burried under the ruins or being unable to leave the shelter, it was perhaps to help save the person. Or he would soak the tiny cubes of hard bread in the water he had with him, and that might help in some minor roof fall. Of course, if it had been an air raid with a lot of damage, it probably wouldn't have helped."