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Following the outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising, the young student Ladislav Červeň with the garrison of Zemianske Kostoľany joined the insurgents and Ladislav became the Uprising Army member. After the suppression of SNU, he wanted to veer round to the liberators, however, fell into German captivity in Low Tatras. He described his further stories and prisoner horrors in his notebook. After the war was over, in June 1945, he returned back to Slovakia and completed his studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Bratislava. The diary of Ladislav Červeň is a personal testimony describing the war horrors of one of several thousands of uprising soldiers spending the rest of the war imprisoned.