Zdeňka Uhříčková

"The house where we lived belonged to a mill. The owner of the mill was a German woman, it was during the war. She was very kind, her husband was an officer. They had a severely disabled son. When the confirmation was held, the miller's wife bought clothes, candles for all the children. In short, everything that belonged to it. When the war ended, the inhabitants of Velké Němčice allegedly drove her out with a whip, as if she were a commander in a concentration camp. I will always remember that, how good she was and how she ended up."

"Dad was a gendarme during the war, he was in the resistance. The Germans somehow found out, he was imprisoned in Cejl in Brno. There is a professor here in Bojkovice, she has two books about the resistance that she lent me, and in those books, dad is mentioned thirty-eight times. He was in a concentration camp in Brno in Cejl. My brother attended the secondary grammar school. In Brod, there is a railway station, wide stairs and then you walk around the secondary grammar school. As my brother attended that school, the professor walked by the window and dictated something, he looked out the window and he saw dad walking away from the station in civilian clothes. He thought that he had been released from the concentration camp, so he just said to my brother: 'Loucký, immediately take your things and go home.' My brother came home and dad was there."