Miroslav Ticháček

„I worked in a factory until bombing... the whole Baťa factory was destroyed... They put me and my eight years younger cousin in charge of eight men in a small bunker. It was Nikolaj Grivačevskij, he was originally at Remenné, the first section of a partisan brigade. We fed him all January together with those eight men. We carried most food. When Zimin and others came here with the Olomouc student group, they were done and others took care of them. We came over to Zimin, he went to have a look at our cards, everything was all right so he said: ‚You know it around here, you got the cards so you also get special tasks...‘ Well those were to get executed straight away... even I almost got there. I was carrying munition at night and just once I went during the day and it almost and it almost did not pay off...“

„Postmen in Zlín and amongst them some Alois Šmíd, who married my mother in 1932 got a war cross after war. He kept all letters that went to gestapo. He would bring large pile of letters and passed it to resistance in Zlín. Some of those postmen denounced him to post master. A postmaster was sh.. scared, called him up and asked him if he realises that the gestapo would shoot the whole workplace out. He reported him and sent him to work in Germany. But mother told him not to go anywhere that she can earn enough for both so he should hide. So he did in covers and around people. All that happened in February 1942 before the Heydrichiade. Since then he was hiding.“