Marie Šubertová

"They were treating them badly. They even killed a 16-year-old boy there. That's what I saw, that's what stuck in my mind. He was a member of the Hitler Youth, these young people who agitated at the end of the war, when Hitler was already losing on all frontlines. He lived not far from us. Two of them led him and kicked into his legs, he was covered in blood. Then they drove him to Horní Karlov and they shot his head off there."

"My father said, it happened to about ten women in Karlov. And there were two in Horní Karlov, there was a mother with four daughters. They raped all of them, and the daughters had baby girls, and I was big by the time when those girls came to work at the Perla store."

"My sister got into some hospital for German wounded soldiers. In '45 they were returning with a transport of wounded to the west. They went through Poland, they went through Lichkov by train at night. So at that time she wrote a letter that if she had known that they were going through Lichkov from Poland, she would have jumped off the train. But they got as far west as Munich, and that's where the Americans bombed that station at that time. And when the train arrived there with the wounded, they bombed the whole station and she died there."