Martin Budáč

“We experienced a lot while being children. Uprising, front, Germans… They used to have exercises in the mornings, so we watched them. There were cannons and they fired from them, but none of us got hurt, or even the soldiers didn’t shoot at each other. We could hear how Germans opened fire, because the Russians were near already, and they jumped out of wagons. They drove the horses into Segeč’s barn, where the Russians caught them, but the Germans weren’t there. Only the stuff they didn’t manage to take in a rush was left behind. They jumped out and fled to Breznička through the woods. I don’t know how many were there, but we heard how horses ran away from the wagons. There was no one killed on any of the carriages.”

“For about two weeks the German troops lived in our old house. However, when the front came, the Russians drove them to Mládzovo. Then a Russian commander with his unit came and lodged in our house instead. Those ten Germans, whom they caught, were dragged to this yard and the Russians took their razors, watches, rings. They distributed little knives to us, the children. Then they took them on horses across this road to Pinciná.”