Anna Bízová

"Then the Russians came and had a camp up there, where the fields and meadows used to be. They didn't hurt us, three of them always came to us for dinner. My mother gave them milk and spread bread with butter. We had two cows, so they were happy. But otherwise some Russians raped the girls. - Here in Dlouha Lomnica? - One night they came at night, asking us to open the door, saying they were looking for girls. They were my cousins, one was sixteen and the other eighteen. One hid in my bed under the covers and the other at my aunt's. The soldiers then went to the hayloft and pierced it with pitchforks to see if they were hiding there."

"It was mostly quiet here, but when they bombed the upper station in Vary, we were in the field and saw the smoke. But otherwise, every time the planes flew, my mother would say, 'Well, they're loaded again today. You can hear it rumbling.'"

"When the war was on and planes were flying, we hid in the woods because we were afraid they would bomb, they were English planes. We lived by a forest where there were low trees, and that's where we always hid. Otherwise, I don't know, I went to school. My mother and grandmother were always worried, but I didn't take it that way as a girl."