Adolf Slamka

"We were reforesting, a woman dug up a box of ammunition or a grenade. There, there, there ... They were afraid, we went with these (detectors) and we searched. Dead ... I brought the gravedigger 6 or 8 bags of bones. Heads, teeth ... There was a pastor in Stránske and he said that if someone died, he would add the bones there. The Germans have records of every soldier where he lies. Exactly where he was killed, the place name, the hour, and everything. Now ours were behind me, that from Čičmany to Strečno I am the only living forester, who was in fact by all the trees from Fačkov. When we were building the cottage upstairs, we found a bunch of bones. Also, when we were making the road, we found bones. We moved the soil, the excavator dug a pit. Who knew. The partisans when they caught someone didn’t give a shit. They shot them and that was it. ” 0:38:59 – 0:40:48 After the war, people from the village found bullets, grenades and bones while working in the forest

"The war had come and my uncle enlisted. He served in Žilina. He had a friend, that Gabčík, he was from a relative. My mother was called Gabčíková before getting married. I remember when my uncle got married, poor Gabčík was his companion. They were having fun at the wedding. They went to war and were in garrison together in Žilina. Jožko, I remember, decided to go away, and invited my uncle to a farewell party. But uncle was already married and his wife was already pregnant, so he didn't go anywhere. Jožko went to the station, and my uncle with him. And Jožko sent him, and then sent him back, my uncle, what was he getting married for. So Jožko left. And then they only heard about him. Together they also got into something in Považská or Dubnice, and in Žilina the gendarmes chased them. And then he left and was no longer with him until they wrote that he was friends with him.