We didn‘t understand why someone would beat a poor fellow who couldn‘t walk anymore
Věra Šádová was born on 3 May 1933 in Holice. Her two friends of Jewish and Roma origin did not survive imprisonment in a concentration camp. One of the survivors told about their passing. Dad had to go to Germany for forced labor. He later fled and hid at home until the end of the war. The witness saw prisoners on the death march passing through Holice and watched the brutality of their guards. In May 1945, there was an uprising in Holice. Her father hid her and her mother in the forest from the consequences of the uprising. They returned back to the broken city a few days later. She witnessed the death of the partisan commander Konstantin Korovin at a ceremonial parade on the square in Holice. Soviet NKVD agents probably shot him. Her uncle František Branda lost his property in the 1950s and got sentenced to 15 years in a bogus trial. He was released on amnesty in 1960 but returned to prison shortly after for making anti-state speeches. The witness‘s husband served with the Border Guard in Šumava. He joined the Communist Party for pragmatic reasons. Věra Šádová lived in her apartment in Holice in 2022.