Josef Veselý

"The firemen and gendarmes came together and cleaned the box. I was there too, but I was far away, they wouldn't let us in, in case something happened, for security reasons. So, they cleaned it, dug it out, they had to pull it out with firemen's hooks, because they couldn't get there, it was about 4 meters, so tucked away. But the ravages of time. The sand was falling and the corner was visible. So they pulled her out with those hooks, and you know what they found? In that chest, or the box, which was about 30 by 10, just like that, they found all the gold things, silver rings, bracelets and watches, in short, everything that was... Well, now, the police immediately confiscated it all and somehow, they started there... then they didn't let us do it there, so they somehow dug it up and took it here to Úštěk. And so the box was, there was a letter on top, that's what they told us afterwards. There was a letter, it was from two SS men who served as leaders in Terezín in a... concentration camp... and there they robbed people who went to the gas chambers. Well, the policemen or the SS men had access to it, so what they had... even the teeth were there, the rings and everything, so they took it away and the two SS men were from […](not understandable, editor's note) and you were there they just put it in that box. And there was also a letter saying that they would meet after the war, that they mustn't tell anyone about it, and that after the war, that they would come to an agreement and that they would drive to get it."

“The traveling inn. He was there normally... just barns. It was owned by two Germans who went to war but never returned. And there were two women of German nationality in that inn. They stayed there for a while longer, about 2-3 more months, than the transports, although it was not a sudden removal of the Germans, it was organized, maybe 3 or 4 transports, maybe more. So the German women kept hanging on there, thinking that the Germans, the SS men, would come back, that they would meet somehow. But that didn't happen, and when they really had to leave, their time... simply ran out, so they had to leave. In short, they had to... but such a thing happened. The German women... how should I say it... how they were forced... so there was a well. It was deep, at that time they said it was about 25 meters deep. And into that well they threw all the things that were more expensive, that could be stolen, they threw them there as if out of anger, and finally the two of them jumped there, into that well. Where they drowned, of course. It stuck there, it was a big affair. They probably pulled out the Germans. Then they filled up the well. For a long time, it was still called "The Crematorium.”