Marie Jakubíčková

„He was ordered by, I don't know if it was called National Committee or Revolutionary Committee, he was just ordered to come to the school yard with a hay wagon. He arrived, and they drove the inhabitants of the school, the Germans, they weren't even from Sudeten, they were from beyond the border, Deutschland, so they brought them onto the hay wagon and told the man, Kožurik, that he had to take them to the forest. And that meant certain death, because they had shot enough Germans there. And suddenly Josef Kožurik started to vomit, he couldn't bear it. So one young woman grabbed the reins and shouted: ,Let's go!' And she hit the horses and off they went. And then what happened. The murderers were riding next to them and behind the water, as they were coming out of Skřivany to the bridges over the river Cidlina, suddenly an army convoy with a white flag was approaching from the forest. They were surrendering. And they were Germans and the murderers scattered and the people were saved."

„So I was there when the time came when threshers and machines were being taken away from farmers. My father had even an automatic sheaf-binder, but they didn't take it away from us. To us they came and they were, I call them Werkschutz, but they weren't Werkschutz anymore, they were militia. And there were also women with revolvers, I know that. And us, children, we stood nearby, there were still six of us at home. And they weren´t taking the machines, they were taking the engines. So that the machines would be out of order. And my mother was there, too, and she said, because we were standing there in a row: ,Aren't you ashamed? Don't you feel sorry for those kids?' And they said: ,No!'"