Jarmila Hermanová

"When the German threw me out on the road, I went home, what could I do. Mrs. Brabec was standing there and said to me, 'Go home and don't look for him. Our boys all ran off into the woods to hide somewhere, he went with them.''I accepted it and went home. But I stopped at the Kroupa mill. The boy came to the door and was crying and said to me: 'Jarka, please go home and don't look for him. I'm going to leave the mill, I'm not going to be here and I'm going home too.'When he told me to go and he went as well, I went home. I got to the memorial, there's a World War I memorial there, and even when I was going past it before, I saw somebody lying there, but I didn't think it could be my dad. It wasn't until I was coming back now that I saw him lying on the ground on his back with his cap in his hand. And I recognized my Dad by the cap lying on his chest."

"The Germans interrogated Dad at the Gründl family from Sunday afternoon until nine o'clock in the evening, so that he would reveal the other fourteen people who had been at the disarmament. Dad was standing like an oak tree and did not say anything. Mr Gründl then said to me: ‚I will tell people who Franta Šimek was!' I said: ‚Mr Gründl, who values life knows it, and who doesn't, doesn't care.' If you knew what they did to him, but he didn't say, he didn't say anything. They tortured him in every way to make him say who else was there, and he claimed he didn't know, he didn't know them. At nine o'clock they took him to the place where the memorial is today. There is a little pond in Želivec, and from the pond a little stream flows out into the Štířín pond, there is a little bridge there. They put him on the meadow, which is a little lower than the road, and eight murderers shot him, eight Germans executed him."