Jana Valášková

"There have been terrible massacres there. The commander fell there and they began to take revenge. Even before the bridge, they pulled civilians out of their houses. They shot almost the whole Červenka family - the old man, grandmother, mother, only one of their daughters was alive. And then it was said that the family was related to people from Lidice. So it was a real tragedy. Then I know there was a dead girl and a boy of about fifteen. They captured the barricade and shot all the insurgents who did not fall and could not hide somewhere. The Vlasovs also helped, it was here that they helped defend the barricade and 16 of them fell there. It was calm, so the women went and collected the dead. The grandmother went to look for her son, the uncle. She found him under the bridge somewhere in the huts. Other women helped her load him up on the cart and brought him home."

"I remember the funeral of President Masaryk, which was very famous. It passed from the Castle through the whole of Prague, then he was transferred to the Main Railway Station by train. He took the train to Lány. And we were saying goodbye to my mother and my neighbors by going to Nusle and there were stairs down. We were on the stairs. We saw a train coming out of a tunnel, and we saw a coffin on a train in an open car. It was on a carriage, covered with flags, and there were military guards."