Josef Plíhal

“Dad was disappointed by that time. In the army, so that he would not have to enlist in the Wehrmacht, he went to live in Prague. There he found a place to live and met my mother. He had two more siblings. His brave brother Hans died in the very first year in Poland during the war. His sister Johana, my aunt, whom I didn't get to know either, signed up for the Germans, so they [with Hans] stayed here. She eventually died in a concentration camp, the Germans themselves executed her because she was carrying some information somewhere. I saw that with my own eyes, the report that she was missing. But I don't know what concentration camp it was in anymore. I cannot remember that. But I saw the report with my own eyes.“

"What was it like in the fifties... Parents were worried about us because a pedophile was also found here. I know of one younger boy who was raped, I won't say his name. It was a wilderness here. People made money, there was a ticket system, there was nothing on the market, so the miners went to the pub. There were fights. We went to school in the morning and there was blood on the sidewalk at the public house. But nothing was published. Jáchymov was a forbidden zone. There were checks in Dolní Žďár, if you know about it. When my aunt came here from Prague, my grandmother, my second aunt from Prague, my dad had to get a pass for them. In Dolní Žďár it is in the places under the former Škodovka, there is an industrial zone there. The track from the station from the island led here, the motorcycle drove here, it led over the road, there is also a tunnel in the bend below Jáchymov. So, they stopped the bus and the train and the green one came and checked the documents."