Marie Kirchnerová

"One time... I don't know, but I think it was some kind of joke. I was still in school then. Well, someone had brought partisans to our pub. I was still at school... and the next day the Gestapo in Zlín knew all about it, because it had already been reported, and so they came... and you know, I was at school and... first, they questioned my aunt and uncle and everyone who was at home, including the uncle who was still cleaning the horses, so they questioned everyone first. Then my aunt came to get me at school and I said, 'What do I say when they question me?' So she told me what to say, how to speak... So I came in, and the Germans started asking me how many partisans there were, who was with them, if I knew these people, what they ate, what they drank, what money they paid with, and everything... I answered some questions, but when they started shouting at me, I started to cry, I was a child. Then they left me alone."

"He was my mother's brother and he found out that an aunty in Holešov, my grandmother's sister, was sick and so he went to Holešov. He used to ride a bicycle. So he was on his way to Holešov and in Přílep some partisans had shot two Germans. Well, Uncle František, poor man, was riding his bicycle, so the Germans stopped him and took him. There was also a gentleman who was going to his fields with a wagon and horses, and they stopped him, too, to go and help them load the Germans onto the wagon. There was another gentleman, a teacher, and another man - there were four of them altogether. And they went to help the Germans and they took them to the barracks in Holešov. Well, we didn't know anything until after the war when they wrote to my aunt that František Kučera had been shot and that he was buried at the barracks surrounded by clover."