Jiří Bouše

" And in our house they settled there /Vlasovites/ with a field kitchen right next to the house, next to the garden there was a little hill, there they stopped with a wagon with a field kitchen. During the morning they brought there, I don't know if it was half a beef or half a horse, they just started to make goulash, they had the field kitchen on the wagon, suddenly there was a panic among them, that the Russians were coming from the north and they were running away from them. They threw the kitchen off the wagon, hitched up the horses and left, drove off, poured the stew there, no grass grew there until winter..."

"My father had a special job that no longer exists today, he was a grocer buyer. He used to go around the villages in the area, buying eggs, poultry, butter and such small agricultural products, which he took to the market in Pilsen once a week. He had a carriage, a horse and with that horse he would ride 42 kilometres to the market in Pilsen."