Jarmila Rubeyová

"We were at home and we saw already from a great distance that some men were coming. At first two of them came armed and said: 'Mama, kill a rooster, you have to give us something to eat.' My mother saw they were armed so she went and did as they said and they ate and went away. And since then they started coming to us, sometimes up to seven or eight of them. We had a full keg of cabbage and they ate almost all of it. They came in the night and said: 'Mama, give us some cabbage.' So my mum gave them the cabbage and bread. When they started coming regularly we started looking for food. My mother was looking. There wasn't much to get for the food stamps so she went to Rajnochovice where she was born and she asked the miller to give her some flour. Then we were always baking bread at home. And it went as far that I was bringing them the bread to a bunker they had in the woods under the Ojičná hill. They gave me two loafs of bread to carry and I went. They waited for me somewhere on the way and I gave it to them. Before that they ensured my father that nobody would do me any harm. That even if thirty men had been sleeping at our house and us girls among them, nothing would happen to us. That they swore an oath and any partisan would have immediately been punished. But our father was still worried about us. He would rather have gone there himself."

"We went in groups. Sometimes we would go to Lázy, that took more than an hour. We went in a group of fifteen, twenty... we didn't go alone. And we also used to go to Mikulůvka. Then we had to cross the woods. We had boots on and took our dancing shoes in the hand and when we came there, we let the boots under a tree, put the nice shoes on and went on."