Ing. Josef Čechák

"He made boxes for electrical wiring for the cowsheds. That's what one Minister ordered there. This is the name of two peasants: Ministers. And he said in the pub that he made the boxes for the Ministers. And the one who heard it reported it, and then the investigation took place in Krčmaň. But that would be a long talk, exactly as it was all, but it simply did not prove that Kopka would be able to make such boxes. And that the road was misled, that it was made in Prague. And those boxes were not supposed to explode, but to cause a stir in the government that there are such people who want to remove (ministers)."

"In January, it is important to remind people to know that the Auschwitz concentration camp was transported. I was on the track again to see the track master, a short distance, about ten meters from the tracks leading to Vienna, to Břeclav. And the men from the warehouse came to tell us, 'Come and see.' A freight train arrived in mid-January, it was freezing, a freight train arrived, and there were at least fifty prisoners in open wagons. They had a blanket over their heads and only eyes were sticking out. And as we came near, they called to us, 'Brot, brot!' That is bread, bread. The trackmaster turned to me, 'Do you have any food, do you have any snacks?' 'Sure, I have lunch there.' I went to the office, took the bread, spread with greasy lard in between, because we could kill. We had a field meter, so we killed a pig during the war. He took it, walked around the car, but the Germans guarded it. So, he took it and threw it between them. What were two slices of bread for so many prisoners? In open cars, in winter."

"A lot of American pilots died. Planes fell down, bombers and also German fighters. Only in our territory, on the border with Kokory, there was a heavy bomber and then near Troubek, near Tovačov. And the German plane Messerschmitt or Focke Wulf, if it was it, it flew. The pilot was probably wounded, so he flew over our building and sank a short distance behind the garden. It exploded as if a bomb had fallen there. When we looked at it, we saw pieces of guts, flesh along the walls of the big hole. And after a while, because we have high water there, it filled with water."

"In two years, a car came to Krčmaň once, just when the Communist Party had a meeting. They left the car down by the pond, people back then still drove on the old road. They went and get Mr. Kopka. And he had to go to the car with them. But from the meeting that was at the municipal office, or in the room for the municipality, a public meeting, a gendarme, a policeman, returned to Týnec. He had an office in Týnec. And when he was driving down from Krčmaň and saw the car standing there, he was going against the car and the car lit up the car and he saw that it had an overlapped car number on the back. When he stood, he uncovered it and marked the number. And then he went on to Týnec. And before he turned to Týnec, he saw a car following him, so he turned to Grygov and jumped down there and hid somewhere in the bushes. The car went to Týnec to the gendarme station and they found out that no one was there, so they drove towards the border to northern Moravia."

"The second plane was in the woods, and when we went there to see it, we saw German pilot on the road, who jumped from the plane. But he probably jumped up late, he was low above the ground. The parachute did not open, he was wounded. We saw the head in the hull being pushed down. We saw on his hand, his flight watch, it worked, it was fine. There were Germans in Brodek, so they went around and collected the wounded and investigated what had happened. So, the second raid was air combat. It was horrible."