Libuše Hlinovská

"They organized trains, they seized weapons in Roztoky and other places, although there were not enough of them. However, these two trains were still completed in Roztoky by volunteers and they went to Prague to help in Bubeneč and further. From Roztoky, amongst others, the youths took part, even the boys from the Technische Nothilfe, that is, the boys who used to be with us in our group also joined there. The train stopped in Bubeneč, but the Bubeneč villas were still occupied by German SS men who were well armed. The train stopped, and those volunteers who were only partially armed got off and apparently wanted to fight the German SS men. Among them was one of our friends, Miloš Vraštil, and other participants from Roztoky. The youths were not sufficiently armed and especially not sufficiently trained, because it had all been organized on the spot. While the SS men from the Bubeneč villas were well prepared, and among those who got off the train was Míla Vraštil and about two other volunteers from Roztoky - they were shot by the SS."

"My mother found out that the Germans were going after some Czechs, especially from Sokol, and they named my father directly, saying that they were waiting for him to answer to the Germans for his former Czech activities. I don't remember how my mother arranged it, but she tried to somehow let my father know not to return to Kozolupy from mobilization, that the Germans were ready to punish him in some way. The fact is that it was not necessary for the Czechs to move out immediately. Some, such as the postmaster and others, moved out as soon as it became known that Kozolupy would be taken. But most of the Czechs were in no hurry, there was no need for them to move immediately."

"Our villa was opposite the German villa. I often had friends visiting in the garden swing and we were included in the danger of German visits to the opposite neighbour. The villa was right on the state road that led to Stříbro. We had an assignment, when a car with German plates pulled up at the opposite neighbour's house, we would stop our games and run out in front of the garden and write down the numbers of the German cars, which we would then report to our parents, and our parents would in turn report them to the Czech police. So we actually had a spy assignment at that time."

"My uncle came from Ústí nad Orlicí, but he studied chemistry at the Czech Technical University. He was already a finished engineer and was an assistant at the CTU. And when the students went to the parade, he went too, and he had the misfortune of being very tall. He was about two metres tall, which was not common at that time. The police were watching the parade, and I don't remember exactly if the students were taken right out of it. I don't even know if the Czech police were watching the parade or if it was the Germans, but my uncle was picked out and arrested with about fourteen others. He was locked up, but somehow he got out in the end. He had a studio apartment somewhere in Vysočany, and the family said afterwards that it was because of that that he was released and not imprisoned for a long time. He made the excuse that since there was no school and no classes that day, he went home to Vysočany and that he got caught up in the parade. The schools were closed, so he lost his job, and I don't know if he could have gotten a job in Prague, but he found a job somewhere near Pilsen in a distillery and spend the rest of his life there."