Plzeň, hlavní nádraží
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Silver airplanes flew above us

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The Allies’ air raids of strategic targets – the Škoda plants and the main train station – were part of everyday reality in Plzeň towards the end of the war. At the time, Ludmila Levá was a student of the girl grammar school in the city centre and walked past the station on her way to school every day. As a child, she never realised how serious the situation was, or how dangerous bombs were. “As a girl of eleven, I would think about what’s worse – an air raid, or a storm? There was thundering noise during either.” Once horns announced an expected air raid, schools sent children back home. All children wore a sign with their name and address on their clothes for easier identification in the event of an injury. The witness remembers running home past the station during a raid: “There were silver airplanes flying above us and we were running. My mother must have suffered terribly, not knowing where her children were during an air raid.”

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Ludmila Levá

Ludmila Levá

She was born in Plzeň in 1934. She comes from a large Roman Catholic family; her uncle Mons. Josef Limpouch (1895–1965) was an important clergyman in Plzeň. He was a Roman Catholic priest, and he was involved in the resistance movement and was imprisoned in Nazi prisons during World War II. The communist regime imprisoned him again between 1951 and 1960. Her aunts Marie and Terezie Limpouchs were evicted from their apartment in Plzeň in 1953 and lived in a crumbling parsonage in Potvorov. The witness worked as a nurse.

Plzeň, hlavní nádraží

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Plzeň představuje důležitý železniční uzel. Hlavní nádraží postavil v letech 1898–1908 stavitel Rudolf Štech ve stylu secese. Rozlehlou nádražní halu zastřešuje velká kopule, jedna z dominant města. Coby důležitý strategický bod bylo plzeňské nádraží kromě Škodových závodů dalším cílem spojeneckého bombardování za druhé světové války. Silně je poškodil především nálet v noci na 17. 4. 1945. Po válce se dočkalo obnovy.

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Silver airplanes flew above us

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