"It's known that the Germans were well-armed, but we also had to try, they already had a lot of damage to the air force, they just caused a lot of trouble with those mortars."
"There in Slovakia, around Liptovský Mikuláš, the population was the worst there. There used to be some German settlements and there were a lot of Germans, you know. I was wounded at that time and they (comrades-in-arms) freed there, and the civilians went against them… "
"The Germans fired mortars there. It happened to me at night when I was on guard next to the cannon. You could not hear that at all, but the mines were heard rather loud when they flew. Suddenly I felt pain, here and here, there was much blood…"
Válečný hrdina dřevorubcem
Mikuláš Lenoch se narodil 20. ledna 1925 ve Volkově oblasti Dubna na Volyni v tehdejším Polsku. Pochází z tamní komunity volyňských Čechů. V roce 1944 narukoval do 1. Československého armádního sboru. V průběhu postupu vojska byl 21. září roku 1944 raněn a dopraven do nemocnice ve Lvově, po rekonvalescenci v nemocnici působil u pomocné roty v Levoči. Po válce se živil těžbou dřeva.