Marie Bařinová

"When the front was crossing, one day armed Germans ran through our house looking for some means to escape quickly from the Red Army. A bicycle or a motorcycle. Dad had a bike under the straw in the barn. They were there, they were pedaling, but they didn't find the bike."

"The last years of the war 1944/1945 were so cruel for the inhabitants of Morávka. That's when the partisans built a bunker in Travne. They dug a hole in the ground and made a bunker there and disguised it so it wouldn't be seen. Not everyone was there, some were on the other side, like Ropice and Slavic. On the slopes of those hills, the highest huts were used as a source of food. But somebody leaked it and the Germans raided the settlement of Zajicorka in January 1945. There were several cottages, three or four. There was a cottage on Kyčera, my godmother's cottage, and below there were the Koloniční and the Muroni. At night they took all the men out of bed, handcuffed them and gathered them in the cottage of my godfather, Alois Muron. And my cousin, the same age as me, and my cousin two years older, they were just hiding under the covers in fear, because they wanted to arrest my godmother too. She said she had kids and cattle and who was going to take care of them. So they finally let her go. But my cousin and my cousin saw their father for the last time... ...handcuffed."