Ing. Daniel Malyk

"Moreover, all of them who were in the Communist Party, the Comrades, carried guns. I don't know why, although it's true that at that time they were the Mašín brothers and for some reason they thought the Mašíns were somewhere in there. In Komořany, so I remember that the Ereny, the soldiers, came about two or three times. They jumped down right at that crossroads in front of our house and then they deployed them all the way to Zbraslav, and then every thirty meters on that road there was a soldier with a rifle. "And then, on some command, the entire line went into the forest, combing through it in the direction of Točna. That happened about two or three times, back when the Mašín brothers murdered those people there. The communists had everything firmly under control. The youth groups, about five or six years older than us, the ČSM (Czechoslovak Youth Union), would walk around in blue shirts with big badges, which we actually thought looked kind of cool. They organized all sorts of events there, like celebrations, performing dances and songs. And the rest of us, people like us, just kept our mouths shut."

"There, between Komořany, over the hill, a leafcutter was allegedly driving. And the letter carriers were wearing such capes, black. And the tanker, the crew of the tanker, they thought they were carrying something. So they fired at him, and the mailman was hit from behind, and it hit him around the kidneys. So he fell down in great pain and lay there almost all day. And then in the evening, one of the boys said that he and another one, the ditchman, crawled in there to get him because they were so scared. And on a blanket they pulled him back through the ditch and he died in the meantime. So I know there was a memorial, up there. Then I remember that the monument was at Sosna. There was a guard there, and the Germans came there on a motorcycle and shot them with a machine gun. And in Komořany, as they were lying (note: along the road) and shooting (note: at the retreating Germans), six tanks arrived, somebody says five, I don't really believe it, I think one would have been enough, and started shooting at them. Then some of them ran across the fields to the forest, so they shot most of them, and those who ran to Komořany over the fences, some of them saved themselves."

"For some reason they were relieving themselves and dropped the bombs, so we went out and found the houses were gone. All those wooden houses had burned down. I remember vividly how the plinth, which was made of cinder blocks, the floor was burnt down because it was wooden, and that there was cinderblocks and a little dog was digging in it. White and black, I still remember him. When the camp burned down, they moved us to stone houses in Vienna. Our parents were fixing the broken windows and they were still carrying the six suitcases, and the Russians stole two suitcases with our ID papers. Luckily, my mother was guarding the food and clothes, she didn't give that. Because it was hard then. And the Russians were very bad. There was an Austrian woman wearing a man's jacket. And he said, 'Give it!' She said no, she wouldn't give, she didn't have anything under it. So he shot her on the spot. The jacket was no good, shot through and bloody."