Jitka Coufalová

"The next day we went into the town and they were shooting in the square because some people there didn't want to accept that they were here. A lot of people were lying at the pavements and bellow the curbs, but they shot five people there anyway. And so we ran to the dormitory and a boy was shot in front of the dormitory. He was nineteen years old and he was the son of our cooks who prepared all our food, he was their son and it was ugly. We were scared. So we picked ourselves up and actually from the classes or the work, the girls and I decided we weren't going to be there and we were going to go home because everything was broken. The pavements were broken, there were soldiers standing everywhere, we were all just scared. So we packed up and we went home. And when we were going from Prostějov to Olomouc, there were soldiers standing all along the railway with machine guns pointed at us, and we were just lying on the seats, scared to stick our heads out, and that was the first experience."