Jaromír Vyskočil

"When we were occupied, my father woke me up and told me to go listen. I just had a holiday that day, but I still got together and drove to Březovice, which is about eight kilometers away, to see what it looked like there and what my co-workers were doing. The radio was in all the workshops at that time. And I remember before eight o'clock, when the shooting from the main building was heard, they played an anthem. So, we heard the anthem at that sad moment."

"I remember when my dad took me on a bike, on a seat, and we went to see the explosion that was at Brčekol at the end of the war. There were wagons on the Hrochův Týnec - Chrast train line, which was then blocked by military equipment. Ammunition was also loaded on some wagons. The ammunition exploded one night. Neighboring villages like Brčekoly, Blansko, they felt it the most because their roofs were damaged. Some fell down by a pressure wave. I still remember the pit that was there on the track."

"When I went to the school in Vejvanovice, when there was some celebration, the whole school met in one class and the principal had a speech. From that time, I remember how he told us about Masaryk, but he was talking in an old way, he told the truth. I remember one song: “Všechny děti v jednom šiku půjdeme bránit republiku. Za tebou, náš Masaryku.“ (All the children in one chic we will go to defend the republic. We will follow you, our Masaryk.)"