Oldřich Čunek

"Already planes were roaring and bombs were falling, some of them on Antonínova Street. A bomb fell in front of our house and there was a huge crater. And from the house next door on Antonínova Street, about 300-400 metres away, a lintel flew out of the window and broke through the wall in our living room and landed in the living room, which we were just painting. And our sister Helena stayed at home, and when the bombs were falling, she ran from our house across Antonínova Street to the meadow to the hill behind us, in the smoke and the smell of the bombs that were exploding, I was still sitting with my dad on the meadow. When we saw the horror of the bombs falling from the sky, we jumped up and rushed to that little hill, there was a kind of bunker there and we hid there."

"I saw President Masaryk when he was driving by on his way from Otrokovice in an open car and people were waving at him, I still remember that. And with President Beneš, I also remember his speech [in Zlín]. But most of all I remember Klement Gottwald. He was drunk and he was speaking from the platform under the Big Cinema to the nation, I wasn´t listening much. It seemed to me that he was not normally in his right mind. But he was talking to the Communists and to his friends. Klement Gottwald, I remember him well."