Miloš Lehečka

"[Partisan František Dušek] left here only when it was known that the war was over. Then he founded the trade unions here - or as they said after the war, how to take care of things here. That's what the book Eighty Years of the Liberation of Lnaře Region is about, because this is where the demarcation line was. And that's why my dad made a memorial to them here. He made [an inscription] for them here: 'Here a soldier met [from the land] where the sun rises,' that means from the East, '[and from the land] where the sun sets,' [that means] from the West, 'and they shook hands.' That means that the Russians and the Americans shook hands here, that they ended the war here. He made a memorial to them here, which is pictured on the back of the book."

"I got my hands on a file that [my father] wrote, and this is a time that he had just lived through six months before the end of the war, when a partisan visited him here. Supposedly he was the commander of the partisans in the Podbrdské lesy, one František Dušek, who came here to hide because the Gestapo was chasing him. He came at once, [but] they had known each other before the war, because he had worked here for about half a year or a year... he was here as a teacher, then I don't know where it took him, and finally he came here to hide from the Gestapo. My father was hiding him here for half a year and he required him to bring him some detailed reports that he heard from the radio. But since we didn't have any radio, he would go to the neighbours and always retell it to him or make some notes, which he then... I don't know, he supposedly had some big map here, on which he marked the progress as it was happening there, because he couldn't go anywhere to the Podbrdské lesy that six months before the end of the war [he couldn't] - it was occupied by the Germans."