"At Banská Bystrica there was soil mixed up with blood and corpses"
Marie Chudá was born in 1920 in Volhynia. Her father was a cabinet maker who stayed in Volhynia after the WW I. Many Volhynians including women joined the Czechoslovak army after it was founded in Russia. Ms. Chudá went through a tough one-month training and then joined up straight to the front. She took part in the bloody combat at Krosno and Dukla. There she was wounded by a German grenade so she spent two weeks in a hospital. In Slovakia there was a problem with the locals who gave out the Czech's position to the Germans. At the same time there was a huge hunger since the providers couldn't get to them. By the end of the war Marie Chudá got to Ostrava. After the war along with other Volhynians she emigrated to Czechoslovakia. Here she worked at a grange and later in an Agricultural Cooperative. She never joined the Communist party.
