Helena Zářecká

“We did not return to the factory anymore, but instead we went home through Nemušice together with a young friend of mine. Her name was Růža Utíkalová, they had a house and a forest there, and they raised cows. The Utíkal family had several children, and at the time of the air raid, two of them were inside the house and the parents were plowing a field by the forest. Their sister was coming back from Telegrafia, and she continued on her way home and their house got a direct hit... There is a street of victims of 24th August. Růža Utíkalová arrived to me on a bike from their neighbours and she came to tell me that the two little children broke out a window in the last moment and they ran away to the neighbours and thus they have saved their lives.”

“Valčík, one of the partisans whom they shot to death… There was hotel Veselka here, in the place where the savings bank is now… Valčík worked there as a waiter for some time, but they were actually preparing for the assassination. The assassination took place in Prague but these people were living here… He was serving beer and listening... German officers were coming to Veselka. He was one of the paratroopers who were dispatched here and who later perished in that church in Prague.”