Jiří Fiala

"That was already in 1945, when the Zarevo partisan group broadcast from Malinská skála towards Kiev. Because the Germans were eavesdropped, a commando came here in March looking for these partisans. It was a coincidence that the partisans were warned at half past two in the morning, and that commando came here at six or seven in the morning. That is one of the details that one remembers. Here we had grandfather and grandmother, there was me, brother, father and mother. They searched our cottage. First the officer came, here we had beds, and they asked: 'Who sleeps here, who sleeps over there?', depending on which bed was still warm. There were enough coincidences and luckily no one revealed anything then. The commando came here on a sledge, there were about 40 of them. Otherwise we could have been just another case like Lidice or Ležáky; they would have set us on fire here."