Krista Podaná

"Nobody can imagine that. We were sitting in the basement of Šilheřovice Castle, it was such a long and wide corridor. And they brought the wounded soldiers like sacks of potatoes in a truck and took them to the surgery room. And my mother and I had to sit and wait for our turn, because my injury was nothing compared to what the soldiers had. I kept seeing it in a dream until a very long time ago when I fell asleep. Then the staff doctor took us, but when we went back in the ambulance, we learned that the "krankenfotr" (ambulance man) did it, because the doctors there were in charge of the wounded soldiers. My injury wasn't that serious. When we were driving back, there is a forest between Šilheřovice and Hať, we were driving along a dirt road and the driver told us: 'Jump out and leave the door open'. We had to get off like this about three times. Because there was a plane flying over us, and when something moved, the plane fired. And when the door was left open, it looked like the car was abandoned. We got home, it went well.'

"I was little, so my friend and I were playing, and a front was coming. German soldiers hid the tank in a barn. And there was also a small grain thresher, enough for those who farmed the fields. And we went there to play and I was supposed to spin the cogwheels, but the soldiers caught a scout there and they were beating him, and I, as a curious child, turned around and put my hand between the cogwheels of the thresher, of which I have the consequences to this day. When mom found out, she threw a tantrum and said she was going to kill me. But the soldiers told her, as they saw my little finger hanging on the skin, that if I didn't get it treated within 24 hours, that I would get blood poisoning, bleed out, and that they wouldn't save me. So, mom took the bike, it was such a time and there was a front, she had a basket on the bike, they only have that in museums today. There she put me down in that basket and drove with me to Hlučín to the hospital. But Hať is a hill, a valley, a hill, a valley, and our landlady caught up with us and sent us to the military hospital in Šilheřovice Castle, saying that the staff doctor had arrived there."