Marie Hrudníková

"He helped the partisans a lot, he was still in Moravia, still free, he was seventeen years old. He was a freedom fighter during the First War. Then, about five years before he died, they decorated him for being a military veteran. He was good. He wasn't afraid; he would go in, he would give the partisans food, or he would bring them weapons as well. Because he was in Moravia and there are forests there, so he went into those forests so they could... It was nice, but I wouldn't want to experience the war again."

"When the war was still going on, towards the end, in 1945, it was over, so in 1944, they took our uncle, my mother's brother. A year before it was supposed to end. The ones that weren't married, the unmarried ones, they took them to Germany. And he died there. But why - they were put in a factory there, making weapons for the Germans. And they raided the factory, and all the poor people died. We don't even know where our uncle is, such a good man, he was thirty-one years old. That marked us severely. But he has a little plaque in the square in Pečky. It's sad."