Anna Novotná

"Well, I used to go to the meadow with my dad, we used to graze the cows, so I used to go with my dad. And in the war they used to fly these bombers, how they used to fly, I can still hear it today, how they used to go whoo hoo, heavy how they used to fly, how they used to have loaded bombs. And they used to fly these silver ones, they have them on trees nowadays, they used to be silver, not gold, but silver, and there was loads of it in the sky. And I said, 'Dad, why is this like this...' And he said, 'It's jamming, it's jamming, they're dropping it and jamming it.' And they flew to Karlovy Vary and just as the war was about to end and they dropped a bomb in Zlutice, you could hear it all the way to our farm. And then in Pilsen, they dropped it there too. And my dad, he knew about it, so I was so curious, I was always asking questions, I was interested, I was like, I really wanted to know about it. Well, so I knew about it. And now we were herding cows and there was this big cherry tree and now the bomb was flying. Dad said, 'Anča, hide, lie down, lie down, hide' So I lay down, he lay down and now it flew, it landed, it didn't explode. My dad says, 'So it wasn't a bomb, it was a petrol tank.' They were flying... So then he went there, there was a lot of petrol in it, so that's the memory."