Milada Linhartová

"It killed my mom at two o'clock on Friday afternoon. She was going to us to bring us milk, at those mountains. And as she was walking from our cottage in the garden, shrapnel caught her there. And it killed mom and knocked over our unfinished wooden villa as well. It was already roofed, but not yet completely finished, and it collapsed like a box of matches. There were German troops artillery guns at the Kulišťáks and all over there, there was the German army artillery and they were firing, and that was what hit my mother. She had one leg completely ... [she] bled to death. "

"I saw four guys hanged at the school. We were at the butcher in the middle of the village buying meat. That was my aunt, my father's sister. We went out to the window in the hallway from which you could see the playground, which was about two hundred meters away. One of them came off and he had to climb upon it again. We stopped watching because it was impossible. I was a child. I was fifteen in 1944. "