They Tried to Liquidate Us

As a member of a guerrilla group Zábřeh, Bořivoj Janhuba used to often go to the woods near Drozdovská Pila. He remembers that, in 1944, he participated in a gunfight with an armed group. “We were shooting at them so they could not encircle us. They had to stay in one place, and we took advantage of it and escaped. We could not face them because we did not have enough weapons.” As a result of a long term living in the woods Bořivoj Janhuba, became seriously ill after this event. He suffered from pneumonia and angina. He healed himself in a nearby Janoušov. It was a blessing in disguise because thanks to his illness he avoided the raid of anti-guerrilla troops in Drozdovská Pila in September 1944. It was the biggest anti-guerrilla operation in this locality and the commander of the partisans, Jan Háječek, was shot during it. Soon after that, seriously ill Bořivoj Janhuba had to move to a safer place. “We stopped by in Drozdovská Pila and they started to encircle us again. We managed to escape and I went to my brother´s place to Ráječek where I was down with fevers, pneumonia and angina.”