MUDr. Alena Chyská
* 1932 †︎ 2024
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"The refugees who had come here just before the end of the war had already started coming back on the opposite side of the road. The Russians were already bringing in groups of captured Germans in the other direction. And the ones who were here as refugees from the frontline had to like go outside the road. The first shocking experience was, there was a man lying down in uniform. There was a lady with him, and he was literally dying. Then the so-called refugees were going, mostly women and old people. A handy man just took the whip and said, 'Ma'am, I'll take you home,' or maybe families just met. So she was there, begging the one guy who riding the wagon, which were the original refugees who had fled here and were coming back on the ninth. He whipped her there."
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"They didn't catch him, but instead they got two escaped prisoners and they shot two. The two were lying there before they took them there by the Zvěřina family; there was a little mound and the two were lying on it covered, just the legs under those blankets peeking out. The two were shivering, it was early spring or late winter." - "Do you know what nationality the prisoners were?" - "We don't know, because they wouldn't let anybody near them. It was some German troops, they were guarding them, they had these submachine guns too, you didn't really know, the Germans had these short rifles, and there were about three or four of them walking around. It was near the cross. They walked around it and nobody went to them at all. Mrs. Zvěřinová wanted to give the prisoners some water, the caught yet living ones. They didn't even allow that."
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"When my parents got up, I would often wake up and slip into their bed because it was warm. Mum had lit the stove, was making breakfast and was going to milk the cows. She said, 'Oh my, dad's not coming, what's he doing there?' When he came he said, 'Got some coffee? I'm very cold, give me some. [The milkman] isn't coming.' Mum said, 'What's wrong?' He said, 'I don't know, but Gertler said he thought that there was... Šaroch said it looked like there ware many cars driving down the main road, he saw lights.' The main road was four kilometers away from us. It was early spring, it was still dark, but given the distance, who would run there just to check? Then the milkman finally arrived late because he had to go around. He said, 'It's the Germans, they're driving on the right.' We used to drive on the left and he couldn't take the main road; it went north to Chomutov and on but he couldn't get to our village and had to go around villages where the troops weren't driving, to get to Bilichov by a different route and through the forest. So, he arrived at about seven instead of five."
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Celé nahrávky
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Praha, 10.07.2024
(audio)
délka: 01:26:04
Celé nahrávky jsou k dispozici pouze pro přihlášené uživatele.
I saw a woman get whipped. It was a horrible experience
Alena Chyská, née Eisensteinová, was born in Bílichov near Slaný on 30 October 1932 to Kamila and František Eisensteins. She spent her childhood with her grandparents and parents on a local farm with a forge where her father worked. They farmed about five and a half hectares of fields, had cattle and poultry. She would help out on the farm from age three. Her first memories date back to the time when President Masaryk abdicated. She also remembers his funeral, which her grandmother told her about. She lived through the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in Bílichov. In the last year of the war she witnessed the shooting of prisoners of war by German soldiers. On May 9, 1945, she and her friends welcomed Soviet soldiers and saw a Czech man whipping a woman who wanted to help a dying German man. She graduated from medical school and became a paediatrician in 1960. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, she worked as a GP in Buštěhrad near Lidice. This is where she met women who had survived the Lidice massacre. Aged thirty, Alena Chyská became a head paediatrician in Kladno. She raised three children. She was involved in setting up the system of paediatricians and neonatal care in Czechoslovakia. Alena Chyská died in November 2024.