František Mráz

„A ještě tak asi kilometr od nás byl jeden bohatý baron, a ten měl asi sto hektarů pole. A až za naší dědinu asi dva kilometry, protože jsme tam chodili do toho města, tam bylo melounový pole. A ty Němci zřejmě, ne, že mně, ale to jsem se dozvěděl od starých chlapů, protože tehdy chlapi se sešli po, už válka bylo pryč, že, už potom my jsme o válce nevěděli nic, když se bili tam u Dunaje v Maďarsku a tak, no. A oni ty němečtí letadla začaly bombardovat to melounový pole. Protože si mysleli, že tam leží vojáci. Že mají helmy. To jsem se dozvěděl od dědy a od strýca. Proč bombardovali to melounový pole."

„Pravou válku jsme poznali, až se už fronta vracela. A tam začala zuřit ta válka. Třeba jsem viděl, jak ty němečtí vojáci měli ty Sajdky, ty motorky. A ty ruští vojáci, to, to si dovedl teprve jako teď uvědomit, ne pozdějš, až jsem byl dospělý, jsem uvědomil, co se vlastně dělo. Tak třeba ty němečtí vojáci měli na těch kulometech, teda na těch motorkách, namontovaný kulomety. A jak ty Rusi se shromáždili a šli dopředu, za frontou, to byli ty dodatečný vojáci, který se uzdravili. No. A oni se seřadili do čety nebo roty, to už si, až jsem byl na vojně. Oni s tím kulometem postříleli já nevím kolik těch vojáků, a oni tam padali na ulici, a oni nasedli na ty Sajdky a odjeli pryč."

"They were gathering in the village and divided the soldiers in single houses. They brough all the wounded ones and those, who died, got burried in the cemetary. They they created a kind of a unit and returned via Ukraine back to Russia. Then came the Russian Cossacks and it was a terrible unit, the gangsters. They gathered cattle round the village and chased it away. They gathered young boys, who then had to chase cattle through Ukraine because it was close. They took everything, clock, or rings from the women."

"They would not let us bring the wheat home and took it directly at the combine. And people in our hamlet were already hungry and began to rebel. The guys protested at the municipal office during and killed an officer. But they immediately called in troops from Salonta and they came there and started shooting at people, and shot 19 people dead in 1949 and the rest were loaded into a truck and taken to the district center for questioning. And there was my mom too. Anna and I were cried that we were alone. About four days later women got released. Guys I do not know, but they let most of them go back."

"They came to our village and shot all the managing workers and those, who stood against them as we were hungry. So for example mum and I we beat the grain and got 49 hundredweight of wheat. But then we were five hundredweight short and uncle had to sell our cow so that we could provide our ratio. So they took everything from us."