Jaroslav Rais

"When the end of the war was approaching, there were, as they say, planes parked around our fields and around the airfield, the kind used to transport about twenty soldiers. That was there, we don't know either, it was happening so fast that we didn't even notice it, you couldn't even stick your head out. But like this, they were there, they were strung up in the woods, trees were cut down, and parked between those trees. They were there for a week, a fortnight, and we walked around, how many times we even got into it. There was a guard there, watching, aiming, but he just chased us out and we went on again. And the first thing was, when there were some of the last... So somehow the Germans had to leave, or they were running away, I don't know. So there were various guerrilla fights in those woods. There was a little building by the airfield, and they had an ammunition depot there. And there was a big fight that night. And we were living across the road about 500 metres away, and these bullets and various slow grenades, it was flying up to the building, normally there were holes in the plaster. So we didn't come out all night and all day either, until it kind of died down and some, it was the Vlasov people who came, they were already chasing them or chasing them away somehow."

"I don't know, there were probably only ten of us in Tocov and in that Nová Ves, we were from Nová Ves, we lived and went to school in Podbořanský Rohozec. And there were about twelve or fifteen of us, I don't know exactly. And that's where I experienced, when directly the friend that I went with from that village, from that Nová ves, his name was Toby, we were friends. And well, and then one day he told me that he wasn't coming back tomorrow, that they were going to move. We didn't understand that at the time, but they had the removal and they left."