Irena Hyblerová

"In 1948, on February 28, his superiors called my father and told him that he was being transferred to Valašské Meziříčí, not in the position he was in, but as a technical supervisor. He was doing building permits and legal things. But in Valašské Meziříčí, there were also communists in the office, and they called him in one day. First, he got a statement that they were terminating his employment contract based on a decision by a party group. So Dad objected, and they said that socialism is such a just social order that there would be no need for lawyers."

"There was a mill between Lešná, Příluky and Lhotka. A concrete road was being built there, and the mill was close by. And sappers were working there. They lived partly with my grandmother. She was ordered to vacate the room, and then the sappers slept in our room. There was a pub across the street, and that's where they had lunch. At the mill, they dug trenches, and when they finished, there was a German patrol. Perhaps there were some partisans in the area, I don't know who they were, and they shot the patrol. The Germans got very angry and said that Lešná must be slaughtered like Lidice. Mr. Count, because he knew German well and he was also somebody, he just settled it with the Germans, and nothing happened."