Ladislav Kubín

"In our village in 1935 - when I was a year old, I don't remember it, only from stories or historical records - a procession was walking from the square in Březno to Holé Vrchy, where a Masaryk lime tree was planted on top of Chlum. The procession was walking along the road - Židněves, Plazy, Kolomuty - in each village people joined in. I was a year old, I can't remember it, but from the stories and written records... They tried to maintain the memorial, and during the war, neighbours like Mr. Svárovský, who was mayor at that time, buried the stone with the plaque in the ground during the war and risked their lives. Besides, in the pub, which also had a shop, the pub owner was collecting food in the shop. For example, my mother sent me with a bag to the shop, to buy this and that, I had a note in my bag telling me what to bring. And I was carrying something there, I didn't know what, but it was food for the partisans, which the pub owner was hiding under the floor in the pub hall. At night, in the back of the village through a little bit of woods and gardens, these people would come to get it. So [the pub owner] risked his life. The man who risked this, so in the fifties, even though it doesn't fit in here, our sociey almost destroyed his family. And the pub was outright stolen by force."

" We children were playing in the village square, we were looking up and some planes were flying from the east. So we said - Russians, Russians. And they were flying towards Mladá Boleslav. We were looking up and waving at them. And as we were looking and waving, suddenly something was falling from them. Then we found out that it was an air raid on Mladá Boleslav, Rozvoj, barracks and so on, where my mother's brother, my uncle, lived, so we were worried how it would turn out there." "Did they survive?" "Luckily it fell a little further on, there was a corner shop, I remember that. That's where it went off, where now the premises of the mechanization school are."