Marie Horová

"It was great, because everything that was written on the shops, everything had to be in German first - then you will see my report card - Hitler was everywhere. Everyone was afraid to say something in order not to get locked up and sent away to a concentration camp. And suddenly I saw German company labels dropping down; there were ladders and they just threw them on the ground. The revolution just started in Prague, so it spread our everywhere. The Russians arrived, we welcomed them. We were happy and drove to Vypich, here at the crossroads, if you know it, just behind the cemetery. Tanks rode there, but mainly exhausted people, also horses rode among them. The horses were so upset that maybe two dropped down into a scarp just dead on spot. In Brandýs, there is a number of graves of Red Army soldiers in the cemetery, who died on May 9, on the very last day. The Germans were waiting for them. They still thought they would win."