Anna Halátová, rod. Korbeľová

“In mid-December--it was on the 18th--a German unit came to our village Jabloňovce. The command divided soldiers by two being lodged in each house, about which they knew its inhabitants were engaged in partisan action. We accommodated one lieutenant and an ordinary soldier in our house. They didn´t want to sleep anywhere else, but only in the room, where other members of our family slept. Since my father was a member of the Revolutionary National Committee, he was still in touch with partisans. He didn´t use to lock the door for the night, as they would often come and sleep over. However, that night, when we had to lodge the Germans, partisans came as well. There came Ján Pešek and Vincent Leštiansky in their ushanka hats. The Germans both sat on their beds and our family didn´t know what was about to happen. My father persuaded the partisan boys to let the Germans be as there was their whole company in our village. If they took these men, other Germans would come and kill off our whole family. Thus the partisans left, but the Germans didn´t fall back to sleep all night long. In the morning, the whole company gathered and in four lines marched from the village towards Žabia hora. There, near the gulley Vozárska, partisans opened the crossfire. This way the Germans were disarmed, captured, and taken to Pukanec, where they stayed detained at the local authority´s conference room.”