Hana Jandová

"In the morning, my brother came running into our bedroom and said, 'Girls, wake up, the soldiers are having a drill. It's as full as the sky of helicopters, planes.' It was a horrible noise, you cannot even imagine. So we quickly ran outside the house and it was a lot of planes and it was a long time before it flew over. And then before we could recover from that, the road again, we only had a road across the field, so there were tanks and armoured cars and lorries with guns coming again. So we quickly ran there. There was this big yellow steamroller, I still remember that, and we all the kids, even the neighbor's kids, found it so we could see better, so we could be high up. And the soldiers were so friendly, the boys didn't know what was going on either. They didn't know they were occupying us, they were just told they were having a drill. So they waved at us, we waved at them. Then they stopped there, they said they were thirsty, so we were still running home to get them drinks and give them drinks."

"There were different gangs, the Banderites. And that was their neighbours too, during the day they behaved quite normally, but when it was dark, when it was night, they would go and rob those villages and take everything from them, and when they fought back, they would hang the gentleman, in the morning he was hanging from a tree in front of his house. And they raped the women and that. That then they had nothing to eat and like that, that my parents had nothing to eat, so they had to make tea from the roots and like that. So that's why they didn't want to be there anymore, because there was great violence."