Marie Mikolášková

"Then they brought him to Chrášt'any. It was Sunday, and people came out, so many people from the church, and they put a box for him in that area. They put him on it and put a sign around his neck: 'I am a traitor to the nation.' And this Máňa Marhounová, they were our neighbors, and her father died in that concentration camp in Auschwitz. So she stood in front of him and she cursed him, in front of those people, she wasn't afraid and she said: 'You murderer, you killed our father!' Well, there it was, people were crying and no one helped themselves. So they just brought him there for a while, the police, and then they took him to Budejovice. And they took her, she was alone, she was German. So they took her to Koloděje to a state farm, where she cleaned cows. And she deceived them, she told them that she had nothing to wear, that she was cold and needed to go to Chrášt'any to get clothes, to her flat, so they let her go. And she went across the river, as it was frozen and there were holes for fish, so she jumped in and drowned. She saw that it was over. When he was gone too."

"They avoided him and people were afraid of him. Then it broke out when it happened in Lidice, and then a week later a little girl in the next village had a funeral, she died of diphtheria. There is a custom there that people from the surrounding villages are buried in the cemetery in Chrastany and in the church. And he went with the funeral procession. And on the morning before the funeral, several trucks arrived with SS men, and they had large metal barrels on them. We didn't know what was inside, but later we found out it was gasoline, and that Chrášťany were meant to be like Lidice. That he had denounced that they had people with guns there. And so they started looking for the weapons. They went from house to house and cut into mattresses and hay, looking for weapons."