Marta Ležáková

"When the front - the Russians - came, the whole yard was covered with them. There was a night curfew, we couldn't even go to the dry toilet behind the barn. Grown girls had to hide from the Russians, they were warned that they were raping. Fortunately, they weren't there long and pulled out. At night, a shot rang out. Mum says: 'Gee, someone's been shot...' Well, in the morning, after the Russians had left, we went to see, and in a ditch not far from the village, a young lady was lying shot. She just had a piece of bread tucked behind her coat. Poor thing didn't even know there was a curfew."

"I remember it very well, and it was during the war, that adults were saying among themselves, 'Hey, they're going to hang Jews in Zelov, shall we go and see it?' My dad said, 'Who would go to see them hang people?'"