Mgr. Peter Sviták

"As for the father - he told me they were supposed to kill them by the work and the absurdity of what they were doing. He told me, of course in the morning there was an appeal, they were standing in the snow, barefoot, sometimes for hours, only in the prisoners clothing, when the Blockteste- that means the person who was responsible for the block, in which the lived, drove them away.If he or she did not drive them out, they would kill him or her. After that, when they counted the prisoners, whether no one escaped, the work started. They ate a slice of bread and something, which resembled a soup. They were supposed to carry rock from point A to point B, and when they finished, to carry them bck to point A. The meaninglessness and hardship of this works were supposed to kill them."

"Well, let's go back to our parents. In the fall of 1944, I think it was already November, they both left by the transport from Zilina to the concentration camp. "Do you know exactly which one?" "I know, I know. But here the Germans and not the Slovaks were deciding, so they left for the transport. At the beginning, when they were leaving from Zilina, they said at six after war at the hospital. I don't know whether they read Svejk, but there Vodicka and Svejk shout at each other, when this war ends, at six at Kalich. They paraphrased it. After the war at six at the hospital in Zilina. They left together to the female concentration camp Ravensbruck."