Wounded
“The bombs started falling upon us. I had dug such a hole for myself. And when the bombs began falling, I took cover in this hole, and a bomb dropped on the edge of my trench, and the debris covered me and deafened me. That is what I remember. I had good friends there, like Krobinec, and others. They dug me out and they were pulling me through a ditch by a road, all the way to the rear to get away from the front line. I remember this, when I came to myself, their pulling me by my legs through that ditch. And the village they brought me to, there was a barn where they were gathering all who were sick or wounded. So I was lying there. I was bleeding from my ears and from my mouth. And I could not hear anything. They were shouting or what. There was an air raid, we were lying in that barn, and they were dropping bombs there. The artillery was shooting at the place, and I heard nothing. I simply did not hear anything. I thought: That’s it, I am a cripple for life now.”
- born December 4th 1927 in Ivačkov in Volhynia
- May 1944 he joined the 1st Czechoslovak independent corps
- in Kamenec Podolský he was assigned to the sappers in the 3rd Czechoslovak independent brigade
- severely wounded before Dukla, temporarily lost his hearing
- after his recovery went to Prague
- assigned to the Žatec army unit
- in the Czechoslovak military transport group, with which he was accompanying the UNRRA convoys
- moved to Rapotín in the Šumperk district
- at present lives in Šumperk