Anna Mazalová

* 1931

  • "I also saw how a Russian shot a Russian after the war, I saw that with my own eyes. He was harassing the girls who were there scraping potatoes and vegetables for lunch. He harassed them and one went to complain. Her dad was Ukrainian, she went to complain and he went to them [Soviet soldiers] and complained. And he said that she should go and show who it was. She went, showed who it was, he [the commander] calmly took him, took him outside the gate, put him against the wall. I saw that from the window and I'll never forget it till the day I die, eww, it was horrible. He took the revolver and that was it, he was dead. Blood spurted out, the brain was up on the wall high up on the gate and he was dead. I can still see it today. I don't want to see that again."

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    Kučerov, 21.07.2025

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He took the revolver and that was it. He was dead.

Anna Mazalová at the age of sixteen
Anna Mazalová at the age of sixteen
photo: Archive of the witness

Anna Mazalová, née Pytelová, was born on February 13, 1931 in Brno. She grew up with her three siblings in the village of Krásensko in the Vyškov region. Her father Antonín worked as a bricklayer, her mother Františka (nee Šíblová) crocheted and netted. After the Nazis displaced the entire population of Krásensko in 1944 to build a military shooting range, the family found refuge in Lulč for the rest of the war. There, Anna Mazalová experienced air raids and the arrival of the Red Army, and during their stay in the shelter, Soviet soldiers ransacked their entire house. After the liberation - in 1946 - the Pytels moved to Kučerov, Anna became a shop assistant and in 1949 she got married. She worked in a mixed feed factory in Vyškov and later in a shop. In 2025, she was living in Kučerov for the seventh decade.