Marie Adámková

„They chose me and either they braided messages in my hair or put in my shoes and took me to the other village and there I handed it over to the major or another village representative. Two guerrillas went with me over the forest but could not go any further as there were Germans, so I had to walk on my own.”

“Several times I had to go to the local policeman in Mikulůvka and he handed the message to the major. I came over to the policeman and asked him, where the uncle was, that I got something for him. He told me he´s at the municipality, so I have to go there and be careful as there were many Germans. I had a kind of communication equipment in my pockets; those may have been tennis balls or various colourful ribbons and also small blowing balloons. As I was passing along the village, there were German wagons everywhere. I was going amongst them and didn’t know what to do, so I was throwing a tennis ball at the Germans and they would throw it back to me and the guerrillas were looking at it from the forests. Or I let go of the balloons. I don’t remember exactly, but think it was yellow as a sign of everything ok, and when I let a green one go, that meant the message was handed over and all is fine, and the red one was an alarm for the guerrillas to call for a backup.”