Ludmila Komanová

* 1925

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    We were running through those bombs

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    "It bounced. One bomb dropped in the yard and didn't explode. Guys put it on this couch and went back again. I don't know what happened to the bomb after. Fact is, as we were fleeing through the bombs later - they dropped these little bombs that got stuck in the asphalt, in the road, for example - we didn't even see it was dangerous and just passed by them, these bombs stuck in the road. But there were people hit, dead sadly - the soldiers who had served [at the factory]."

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    It was a raid on the factory

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    "The alarm was raised in two phases. Alert was given in short intervals as the planes approached. The alert meant we were to hide in primitive shelters. But as we didn't even have time to take shelter sometimes, we just wanted to get [away] from the factory. We knew they were bombing the factory, not ourselves. So we stayed, but whoever could ran away. It was just a moment. Jus a moment later, there was a long siren tone, and that meant the planes were already over us. Indeed they were, in formation... I can see it like it was yesterday..."

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    Hradec Králové, 22.10.2024

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The alarm went off and we knew it was a bombing raid

Ludmila Komanová, 2024
Ludmila Komanová, 2024
zdroj: Post Bellum
zdroj: Post Bellum
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Ludmila Komanová was born on 22 September 1925. Her father Eduard Krušina worked as a gendarme. Mum Ludmila came from the Schweidler family of bakers. The witness spent her childhood in Pardubice, then her youth in Prague where she went to high school. In Prague, she experienced the horrors of the war, having to flee from bombs hitting the factory where she was on forced deployment. After the war, she worked at a ministry. She was forced to leave because she refused to join the Communist Party. Later on, she worked various financial and office jobs. In the autumn of 2024, Ludmila Komanová lived alternately in Prague and Hradec Králové where she took care of her half-sister.

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