Ludvík Stoklasa

"And here I remember it like it happened today. We were shepherding the cows by the river, we did not graze up there anymore, only around the cottages. And so that they would not go on the neighbor's land we had to prevent them. The morning was ending and shooting started, we could hear it. Grandfather said: 'Hey, something is happening.' And then more and more shots could be heard and even the German customs officers started coming up. The Germans called reinforcements in and those, who were shooting, there were many of them there. [The partisans] were on the move and somewhere they ran into a guard group. It ran away, the customs officers lay down there, and started shooting. There was this little chapel on the hill and they shot from it [the partisans]. The Germans came in a car, jumped out of it, and let it be like that and they shot it to death. Even the motorbike. They also had a big dog and they shot him. The Germans went along the stream, where they had cover. There was underbrush and willows there, only they were high up and could see them well and shoot at them. I think that they killed about two and wounded. But they [the partisans] also got hurt."

"And so they called us there to the office. They were from the arms factory, and of what kind... They did not understand it at all, but to pontificate, oh they did it a lot. Even the municipality was hounded. There were five or however many there and they sent them after us always one by one. And I did not want to sign it, and so one of the arms workers jumped up and down and was mean and threatened me. I did not sign it, and so they pushed me away and tried the second neighbor. And he would not sign it either. And what did they do? That they would take our land away and give somewhere all the way in Soláň or Beskydy. It takes three hours to get there with the cattle. And so after 14 days we signed it. And because we were hard to crack, I got work in the forest. And with a saw, there were no chainsaws. In my own forest. We got one salary and nothing for the wood. That went to the co-operative."