Josef Srkal

"Some were dropped off Žatec or Podbořany, but we drove up to Bochov to such wooden buildings, where we moved in. From there, we were searching for a place to live. So we ended up in Tašovice. In Tašovice, we took a small farm with six hectares. My dad made a living as a tailor and me and Láďa cultivated our land. When they came up with the collective farms in 1948, when Gottwald won, we quickly got away from there, since we didn’t want to end up in the kolkhoz. We moved to Stachov. From Stachov, we then went to Podbořany."

"Before they began moving Jews to concentration camps, they murdered them on the sidelines. Between the villages of Moštěnice and Futorem, there was such a tiny gorge, otherwise the land was flat. They took the Jews into the gorge. There were two hundred or even more Jews there. They had to dig a big hole. The people from the surrounding villages were herded there to watch it. I witnessed the shooting of the Jews in that gorge. They were lined up in front of the pit and shot. They were shot by the whole squad. One soldier had standing in front of him a young woman. She was very pretty, perhaps he liked her. Anyway, he didn’t fire. The woman was left standing while the others fell into the hole. Another German came to that soldier, shot him on the spot, dumped him in the hole and the woman went right after him."