Františka Řmotová

"She served on a small farm there. They had a bunker in the cellar, the partisans, made. Somebody gave it out that they were there, and they went in there to find out. And my sister had a boyfriend there, we didn't even know him, it just kind of started with him. And he was probably a little bit with them too, with the partisans... And they shot two of them right there, and the other one was taken to a concentration camp. And now my sister says, 'Come on', and they jumped out the window... and it was like, she had a little room on the ground floor, and they ran, they were going to Klopina. Through fields, at night, through fields. And she said... We lived, we had a little cottage, just, but behind us there was a farmer like that, he had an orchard, a huge orchard, until - you don't remember. A big orchard, barns. And my sister said, 'I'll put him in the barn, in the straw, that's where we'll hide him.'"

"So we were running with these girls and went to the Hitler Youth. They had drums and drummed. The one in the front had a banner, a swastika, and the Hitler Youth had swastikas on their sleeves. And we, as curious people, that... Already the parade went from Úsov to Klopina, they went to Rohle, that was German. And we, the curious ones, are watching. And from Klopina to Úsov, it's quite a road, a straight road. And we were looking and they, the Hitlerites, were slowly approaching Klopina. And we, as children, some of them had already run away in a hurry, and we, and I was among them, and so - into the sewer, there was a ditch - into that sewer we went to hide. We hid. When they leave, we'd come out. Yeah... They stopped: 'Out!' And they lined us up. 'Heil Hitler, Sieg Heil!' We had to Heil."