Armoured train

“We lived next to that main railway track between the main station and Vysočany, near Balabenka. One day we saw a train there, we were looking at it, and it was an armoured train. We came out, and suddenly a shot was fired. You could then see it went through a roof. So we ran into the shelter. And I also remember, we were walking the street, and there were four policemen. They were riding to destroy that train. But when the Germans saw them, there was a bang bang, and the policemen were gone.”

• born May 12, 1929 in Osek, moved to Žebrák, and eventually to Prague-Libeň
• before the war staying with his parents in the Orlické Mountains where his father was working on the construction of border fortiofications
• 1938 participant in the all-Sokol rally
• spent the war in Prague, experienced dramatic situations during the Prague Uprising
• witnessed the occupation of Prague by the wehrmacht on March 15, 1939, and the liberation on May 9, 1945