Alena Tomsová

"And there was a death march from Dolanky to Turnov, and I was in the backyard watching at the gate. And the prisoners just in those cloths, they were so tortured, they could hardly walk. If somebody stuttered, they were already being beaten with a rifle by the Germans. Well, we had gnocchi, potato pancakes, pancakes for lunch then. Now they went and my mother said: 'I'll take the plate, I'll throw it to them.' And now dad, he was just after the night shift, because he was at home, and he said: 'Don't you dare, Marie, you can't go there, because the Germans will come at you. Well, about six blocks down there was a bakery, Mr. Drahonovsky, and he threw two loaves of bread between the prisoners. So all he did then was slam the door and lock it, because the Germans would come right at him."

"We originally lived here next to the church and there was a beautiful park garden and there was a gazebo at the end. And we used to fly around in the garden and the gazebo didn't have any closed windows, there were some windows and we used to jump out of the windows with Bohouš and my sister was there too. And as we were jumping, suddenly it was so strange, so we said that we were jumping out of the window, so we got told off that you can't jump out of the window. But then the SS came and they found this mine. And we were jumping over the mine, so they just defused the mine, yeah. So it was still a remnant of the war here."