Anna Paličková

"We are still taking care of the grave. Those people have all moved to Kadaň. They are happy for that, because we actually appropriated the grave. It was Frantisek's classmate Mirek Kalabus. He sat with him in the classroom. He was the son of a financial guard, and unfortunately his father brought home a grenade. My František was at a wedding in Krnov that day and he wasn´t sitting next to Mirek at school. Unfortunately, Mirek was doing something in his desk and it exploded. A few children were injured and Mirek, as his stomach was torn, ran out of the school to the crossroad and fell down. Then the people there picked him up and rushed him to the doctor and the next day he died in the hospital."

"We always made a fire when we came to work in the morning, even though it was August at the time, in case someone wanted to heat up a sausage. There were four of us girls, well, one woman had two boys in the army already. Suddenly we were surrounded by soldiers with loaded guns. Two Poles, two Russians and one had some other uniform. Now we were accused of being spies. They were aiming at us. I was pregnant and I was sick and this one had two boys in the army. That was quite a situation. We explained in vain that we belonged to the Javorník plant and that we had a forest in Černá Voda, and that they should call there and ask, that we were not spies. It took maybe two hours."