Ing. Karel Kotek

“We couldn't say anything where we were going, and alike, we had nothing. And this was the last village, where you did not have to have a card yet, where no one still was. Well, we did it all. And I said to him, 'How do we recognize you at that station or where...' And he replied: 'You just get off and there's a village right there. Small, tiny village. And there is a dirt road in the fields. On the other side of the road is a cemetery with a large wall between the cemetery and the dirt road. And you go to the cemetery. It is open and you keep walking along that wall in the graveyard. On the other there is a path. 'I said to him: 'Where can I find you or recognize or see you?' - 'Don't worry about that, I'll see you, and that's enough.' Now I was thinking that the guy could just take our money and he'll let us be, which wouldn't even be the worst thing possible, but... So we went, we're still going and it was a beautiful sunny Sunday morning. And nowhere was no one at all, we were the only ones who got off there. And so we're still walking through the cemetery, there was no one there either. Many Germans were buried there, the Sudetenland already existed back then. And so I looked around, nowhere, and then suddenly behind that wall he was hiding and kept walking along and observing as if… He was a professional. He emerged and gave us a sing to climb over. And he said: 'Well, let's go now,' and he was dressed just like those workers from the agricultural coop. And he even had a revolver, which would have been of no use against the machine guns that the guards always had. He said, 'Now we will go together to forest and there you will wait in the forest for the next one I bring. Well, he was a real a pro.