Vlasta Tarábková

"The Germans came after that and built a field hospital here. They were lying on the floor in the kitchen, and in the bedroom there, father had a desk, so when we were here as children, they left us at that desk. As children, we used to put what we had in the drawers of the sideboard, we took all kinds of pencils there. When we were up, we came down here. And the Germans were here, our field hospital was built. That was the case a few times, but then they said that - in those days, he just beat the drum when he wanted to announce something - so here they were drumming that he should come down from those mountains. At that time, my mother and I, the children, went downstairs and stayed with Peter Biely. Because the hospital was here in our house. They were stored side by side in that kitchen. I don't know how many there might have been, ten or more.' 0:36:36 – 0:38:00 - The Germans occupied the house of Pečeňovci and set up a field hospital in it

"We used to go out to play and the Russians were already shelling the Germans from above and the mines were falling all over the meadow. And we, as children, when we were having fun, it was just noises like that - whoops and bangs and whoops! So we threw ourselves on the ground. Well, it always banged somewhere, blew out. So they were already shooting at them. And then later, when they were already moving away from here before the war. The Germans were already leaving. I still know that the German said something to my father that "the Ivani are already going" to the Russians. So that they are already packing and that Ivan is going. So they went away, and here is the guy from us, I told you. That one was probably more seriously wounded that he probably couldn't walk, so they buried him here in our garden. That was one of the wounded, he was probably more serious, so they buried him here in the garden. Not very deep, they probably just dug somehow and at night these neighbors heard moaning and I don't know what. And then when they left, so did the father and that Peter Biely, that his father was also here and they found the German with his hands as if he was digging. They still pulled him out of that land and then transferred him here to Sucha under the trees. There are such coniferous trees and they buried him there. He also had the sticker that soldiers have with that name, indicating who he is. So they nailed it to his tree. No one was looking for him after that. He was already dead by then, they buried him there.' 0:41:20 – 0:43:17 – Trstená was shelled, German soldiers were leaving and buried a dying soldier in the garden