late November 1944 Seven weeks in the front lineSedem týždňov vo frontovom pásme

Bodružal spent seven weeks inside the front zone of the Carpathian–Dukla operation and was badly knocked about. It was liberated at the end of November 1944 — local accounts give both 25 and 29 November, and the difference has never been settled. Afterwards General Ludvík Svoboda, commander of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and later president of Czechoslovakia, lodged for nearly three weeks in Jozef Zelizňák's house at the meeting of the two streams. When the villagers came home they had to walk around four burnt-out Czechoslovak tanks at the bridge, and the fields at the entrance to the village were so heavily mined that nobody could cross them. The church came through it all.Bodružal strávil sedem týždňov vo frontovom pásme karpatsko-duklianskej operácie a bol ťažko poškodený. Oslobodili ho koncom novembra 1944 — miestne záznamy uvádzajú 25. aj 29. november a tento rozdiel sa dodnes nevyriešil. Po oslobodení býval takmer tri týždne v dome Jozefa Zelizňáka na sútoku dvoch potokov generál Ludvík Svoboda, veliteľ 1. československého armádneho zboru a neskorší prezident Československa. Keď sa obyvatelia vrátili, museli pri moste obchádzať štyri vyhorené československé tanky a polia na vstupe do dediny boli zamínované tak, že cez ne nebolo možné prejsť. Chrám to celé prežil.