Karel Bluma

"Then it also turned on me that I didn't get my daughter into school. She trained as a leather bags maker in Kazeta. My son took the exams for the agricultural school, and they didn't take him. But a week later I got a letter from the school headmaster inviting me to see him, and he says, 'Your son did very well and I do care. I'm not going to ask you why, but I will arrange for you, if you agree, a school in Bruntál. So I agreed with my wife that yes, we agreed and he arranged it all. I went to see him, I wanted to reward him with money. He says, 'No, I don't want any money. He deserves it, your son deserves it.' That's about what the response was."

"Suddenly I saw that a German soldier had come to our flat. So, being curious, I also went into the kitchen and now, seeing the machine gun he had, I was afraid. I just rushed under the bed. Really, I was scared. But he came to get my dad to get a saw and an axe and that they needed to cut down trees there. And there was a neighbour next door, Mr. Talpa, waiting for him outside. So they went with the German soldier and he showed them which trees were cherry trees. Cut them down and take the wood. Why did they want to cut it down? Because they were firing a cannon towards Přerov and it got stuck there. And now my father... they had already cut it down and a guy comes from Rokytnice towards Kokory and he's walking happily and my father says to him: 'What are you doing, the Germans are still here...' And he says, 'But Rokytnice is full of Russians.' He, the German, heard that, so he called him and asked him where they were. He said, 'There, full of Russians.' So they quickly turned the car around, loaded the cannon and headed for Olomouc."