Marie Kovářová

"In the afternoon, even in the evening, they found about sixteen people in civilian clothes and interrogated them. And in the meantime, I think it was half past ten, Czechoslovak soldiers came. I don't know how many, but there were quite a few of them, and then this followed. They interrogated them at a neighbor’s house, it was noisy, it was ugly, we were all shaking. Then they took them in the direction of Podskalina, as it is called there. They also dug a common grave, they had to take off their clothes, they were all shot there. They had to stand on the edge and when they shot them, they fell straight into the grave, but we didn't see that. As long as the youth were there, we were in the back, and when this started here, we left because we were shaking like that."

"I was riding along the sidewalk and at the turn I needed to, where the old Valchovská street, the new Valchovská, Hrádkovská street, that is, from this side I needed to get to the left one. It was not possible because there were so many soldiers, they had teams of horses, horses, no one was on foot, not even on horseback, everything was in a wagon. Some of them looked like, drugs were not talked about back then, so they were probably drunk and I was very worried if I would even get home. When I spoke to them, they did not answer me and I spoke in German. Then I was afraid to even speak German, as they could catch me and take me away. Then one of the carts showed mercy on me and stopped and I was able to cross. So, I hurried across, but as soon as I barely took a few steps, the bullet flew past me, you can completely feel the air shaking. And then, before I came out of that forest, it happened once more, so it was a very unpleasant day."