Janka Hamplová

"They really didn't care. The neighbor had a husband, he had to take a candle and hold it for them. He watched his wife being raped. That was really horrible. Well, we were just with another aunt, she was older and more sensible, and we were flying from house to house and hiding. We'd grease our faces to look older. We used to put a scarf on our heads like old ladies. We did everything so the soldiers wouldn't find us."

"Because it was a village, there were cows, horses. When there were battles, we needed to go to the village to get something, for example when my aunt was giving birth. In her seventh month, two soldiers raped her. The baby was born within a week, I don't know exactly. Then it died. So we looked for a midwife, it was a kilometer, maybe more, from one region to the other. So I went with my uncle to look for the grandmother, we had to do that between the shooting, and as we were walking, here laid a horse, here a cow, here a man. It was like that all over the village. When it was quiet for a few weeks, the Russians brought their dead to us. There was a statue of the Virgin Mary in the middle of the village, and they buried them there. They dug a hole, ten, twelve of them were thrown into one hole. There were a lot of them."