Mgr. Tomáš Podaný

"Because it was clear that not many people would come there, they came to the schools, both the elementary school and the gymnasium: 'Then you will supply forty students, you as many and so many.' ? It's probably difficult to deal with manual workers, who had to work, as they would argue: 'You take the shovel off our hands? Hardly, as some just have to work.´ But of course they could have used us, so they ordered to get forty students to the concert. So then it was done in such a way that it worked mainly for the locals. A list has been made and there was meant to be a test the next day, no paper. That's how the list was taken, there were people and students and young people in general. Well, the concert is probably not much, right? But they cheered in the back and clapped. And because we also had to sometimes, they put me on some school and cultural committee here in the city, and there a member of that committee said: 'Indeed, those students, you were excited about the concert!' But in fact they made fun of it."

"German soldiers came to the village. It was said that they were the ones who somehow had to flee because the Yugoslav partisans had driven them out of the country. They were divided into individual cottages. There were four of them in the cottage. Supposedly there was one, he could speak Czech, but he was also German by nationality, so they took one room and cooked with us in the kitchen. They behaved very well, I must say. They also took me there and said: 'Kamm dir.' And just that they took me in and were really polite. But the bus that the group came with... We had big willows in front of the cottage, so it stood under those willows with a swastika on the roof. Then, when the American deep-sea pilots began to fly into various objects, we were also afraid if they could see it from above."