Anna Tomíšková

“That was the main street to Moravia in direction to Vsetín, Horní Lideč... Púchov, Horní Lideč, Morava, which was the main road all the cars were passing, even the Germans, when they were taking it. A whole line of people was walking that road. As Germans were chasing the captures, people were bringing bits of bread, they saw, the Germans, how people were throwing food at those poor people... so they were shooting at them.”

“I knocked at those people´s door, and they let me stay the night, gave me dinner. Very good people they were, elderly ones. In the morning, when I was getting up, they fed me too. And he said, well... he went to put on his uniform, he was a policeman and said: ‚So girl, tell me now truly: where are you going and what happened to you?‘ So I told them everything, that they kicked me out in the factory and I was afraid to go back home. I didn’t know about the fact they had me searched by the radio. That was why they already knew about me. That´s how friendly he told me. It was the goodness shining out of him. So I was willing to tell everything about me. And he said: ‚Would you like to go back home or you wish to go to Slovakia?‘ I said: ‚I will not go home.‘ And he replied: ‚And would you like to work with us here?´”