Josef Nedomlel

"I vividly remember the liberation, when the tanks, the Russian troops that were in Klánovice, were driving down the street. The soldiers had these little horses, so behind the tanks followed the troops, horses, wagons, everything that belongs to the army, cannons. And the very oldest memory is when we were hiding in a shelter during the bombing of Prague. There was a cellar next to the butcher's shop, of course, where we had some benches, basic foodstuffs, blankets and so on. And when these tents started to fall, which was radar jamming, we knew that they were going to bomb. So we quickly moved to the basement, the last one covered it with spruce logs so that we wouldn't get bombed. So those are my earliest memories. Just before the troops came, when the liberation was taking place, my father and I, it was more out of his curiosity than mine, would go to Horní Počernice to watch them bomb Prague."