Zdeňka Břízová

“Yes, people were hiding or they were running for cover. And the Germans, they would shoot you at sight. I remember my mother's brother being wounded, his hand was paralyzed as a result, they gave him a newsstand after the war. So he sold cigarettes, that's something I remember. And there was a school, and a post office right next to it, and there was someone hiding at the local priest'S house. So they would come to the presbytery and shoot our priest. As my mother and my father told me.”

“As I remember, there were partisans hiding in those woods. And after the Germans found them, they would bring them to our village, to our school in Trhová Kamenice. There they would interrogate them, so we couldn't go to school for maybe two weeks. And as I remember, our Mrs Director would visit classes, speaking German, she would speak German all the time. And then there was the May uprising. Both my mother's brothers were in Germany and our father was in Pilsen, and we were so afraid something would happen to him, that he wouldn't return to us, but he came back after the war. And this May uprising I remember quite well, as we moved to our grandmother's house, to the village of Zubří. And when the Germans were going through the village they would shoot anyone they saw. And there were those Jews as well. And they would take them all to the Castle and then to Theresienstadt and not a single one would return.”