Gerta Quotes

“Domov není tam, kde člověk vyrostl, to si nemysli. Domov je tam, kde Tě lidé vítají, když vstoupíš.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch

“I can’t help it, but I have the feeling that apart from those two or three years with Uncle Karel, my mom lived a completely unfulfilled and futile life.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“Her pension was laughable, that was true—after twenty years of demotions and working for minimum wage, there was no place for money to come from, but she was free. For the price of having given up.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“Justice does not exist. Until recently, she had believed that it did and had thought it was somehow related to a person’s degree of guilt. Until recently, she had thought that in the end, truth would prevail. How wrong she had been!”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“What had started out as a quest to liberate the racially pure German people and provide them with Lebensraum, living space, had turned into a battle against Jewish Bolshevism and forced de-Germanization”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta

“Home isn’t where one grows up; don’t make the mistake of thinking that. Home is where they welcome you when you walk in the door. And that’s something none of us here in Brno have experienced.”
― Kateřina Tučková, Gerta