They Drove Them past Our House

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Anna Štichauerová lived with her parents in the guesthouse called ‘The Guesthouse by the Green Tree’ in Pardubice. “On June 24, 1942, a convoy of lorries covered with tilts arrived from the Ležáky direction. Two Gestapo members, who often came to visit our landlord, were just there. We all had to go out and have a look at those cars. You could hear women and children crying inside the lorries. I recall one woman who lived across the street. When she heard the moaning, she returned inside and when she came back, she carried a small tray with some bread, milk and sausage on it and wanted to give it to the people in the lorries. At that instant a Gestapo officer got out of the car, started to threaten her with his gun stock and knocked the tray out of her hands, so she could not give anything to the women and children. Her husband ran out of the house because he was afraid that they might take his wife as well. It was shocking, but no one understood what was going on. Suddenly a man on a horse came from the direction of Chrudim screaming: ‘Ležáky is on fire!’ Only then did we realize what had probably happened to the village!” she recalled.

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Anna Štichauerová

Anna Štichauerová was born on May 14, 1935, in Pardubice. Her mother was a housewife and her father worked in a factory in Pardubice which produced coffee substitutes. After the German occupation of Pardubice, Anna was run over by an army car and spent two years in a hospital. Luckily, the amputation of her leg was not necessary in the end. They lived in a guesthouse called the "Guesthouse by the Green Tree." The owner, a former naval officer, turned what had originally been stables into flats. The two Gestapo members, who were implicated in the burning of the village of Ležáky, often came to see him. In her account of the events she witnessed, Anna mentions stories of people who helped a group of paratroopers code-named Silver A. She also recalls a story from the year 1944, when Pardubice became the target of three air raids by the Anglo-American Air Force. The purpose of the raids was to destroy a local mineral oil refinery and the local airport. Anna finished primary school after the war and then a nursing school. In 1954, she started working as a nurse. She retired in 1990. Later on in her life - in 1997 - she enrolled for a guiding course and since then she has worked as a tour guide in the chateau of Pardubice.

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Pardubice, hospoda U Zeleného stromu

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Zájezdní hospoda U Zeleného stromu se nacházela na pardubické ulici Chrudimská. V roce 1942 po vypálení osady Ležáky tudy sváželi tamější obyvatele do pardubického Zámečku, kde je následně popravili. Majitel hostince nechal stáje přestavět na byty a za druhé světové války mezi jeho časté hosty patřili příslušníci pardubického gestapa. Hostinec byl později zbourán a dnes zde sídlí firma Alupa s.r.o. vyrábějící hliníkové profily a plechy.

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