Jindřich Hořenín

“What happened was that when Germans arrived somewhere and people there shot some of them, the repercussions were thirty people for one German – whether they were innocent or not. They simply shot thirty people and that was it. It didn’t happen in our village, but in a village about three kilometers away from us, I don’t remember what it was called. I think the name of the village was Moldava. The Germans simply shot thirty people there.”

“Then there were rumours that three or four more villages were also on the list of villages which were to be burnt down by the Germans. Our village was included in that list. My father immediately dug a hole under the window from our room, which was to serve as a shelter, and he covered it so that it would not be visible, and we planned that we would jump out from that window, run to the stable and then from the stable run through the hallway into this shelter. But I don’t know how it would have worked if it had really happened.”