Karel Říha

"They had three children, two boys and a daughter. The sons were gradually taken to Terezín, the daughter wasn´t grown up enough. And I have to say, when I heard that, how Mrs. Roubitschková, how she sacrificed herself. She used the fact that she knew German to help a lot of people. So you can't judge Germans all together. And when the death marches wre passing through Holice - prisoners of war - she organized it, she made semolina porridge. And now she was running around among them, handing it out. And she was able to argue with the German soldiers who were guarding, she was able to give it to them - food to the prisoners. What a woman, there are very few people like that."

"When the shooting started to escalate, my mother grabbed me and we went to the Kafkas' basement. They had a big cellar. It was already full of people. And I still remember, like today, how some people were praying there. But then after a while the soldiers came and we all had to go out. And they put the husbands away from the wives. And my mother, that my father was in the Reich on a job. She didn't speak German, but fortunately one lady spoke German, so she explained to the officer that he was on the job. He assigned a soldier, I can still see him today - so thin, smaller. He had to go with my mother to our apartment and bring at least a letter from my father from the Reich, so he let her go right away."