Vladimír Ulrich

"When the boilermen blew our roof off. Well, I was scared, I was hiding with my friend next door, who lived by the stonemason named Král. When the boilermen were flying. You know, it was so fast, and they were there and they shot it down with those cannons. So we were hiding, lying down among the stones, he had ready for making memorials. Well, when we lay down amongst the stones, we were quite protected. They blew our roof off, the boilermen."

"In that convent, my mother went to apprenticeship... it was in Linz, it was a convent of the Sisters of the Cross and she graduated in 1918. And the money that was still a little bit from that farm was put into some assets, into some shares, well, that lost all value at the end of the war. My mother did end up graduating from that teacher's institute, but she had nowhere to go."