PhDr. Miroslava Moravcová

“In the meantime the people were held in the local prison; they slept there and early in the morning, around three o’clock, they were awakened and told permission had been received, that they would be taken in on the other side of the border, where they would wait for deportation. So the people calmed down. Although – if I imagine the situation, they couldn’t have been too calm because they didn’t know where they were going, what would happen to them... So back on to the cart, they were taken away, taken to the place, split up into two groups. The graves were already ready for them, and they were shot there by selected soldiers who ordered to do so by their commander.”

“The story is very tragic, sad, and so at the time when I was growing up it was practically taboo and it wasn’t really allowed to be spoken about. Not until when I was in my late teens, in the late sixties, when our society underwent a general liberalisation, did I hear the whole story. That was around 1968. And as you know, that period of liberalisation didn’t last long, so I heard of the story and got the information but then the normalisation came and practically for another long twenty years it was spoken of only in whispers or not at all. Not until after ’89, after the Velvet Revolution, when the actual liberalisation came and these sad events began to be... people began to investigate the details, how it happened, why it happened.”