The Slovak National Uprising began on 29 August 1944, and partisan units were strong in the hills around Čičmany; on 4 September 1944 the village set up its own revolutionary national committee. The reprisal came on 4 December 1944, when German troops occupied Čičmany for supplying the partisans, shot the committee's chairman, a man named Raden, and set the village alight: 33 houses burned down and 148 more were damaged. On 6 April 1945, weeks before the war ended, 65 men from the village were taken away to a camp in Germany recorded locally as Milberg. The reserve of painted houses you walk through today is a village that was burned twice in twenty-four years.Slovenské národné povstanie sa začalo 29. augusta 1944 a v kopcoch okolo Čičmian pôsobili silné partizánske skupiny; 4. septembra 1944 si obec zriadila vlastný revolučný národný výbor. Odplata prišla 4. decembra 1944, keď nemecké vojská Čičmany za pomoc partizánom obsadili, zastrelili predsedu výboru menom Raden a obec podpálili: zhorelo 33 domov a ďalších 148 poškodili. 6. apríla 1945, pár týždňov pred koncom vojny, odvliekli 65 mužov z obce do tábora v Nemecku, zapísaného tu ako Milberg. Rezervácia maľovaných domov, ktorou dnes prechádzate, je obec vypálená dvakrát za dvadsaťštyri rokov.
