Pavel Vaneš

"I know from my dad's story that... and he didn't even want to talk about it too much, because every time he remembered it, he would start shaking like an aspen, and there's something that happens there that I don't think we can even imagine, because I know that he told me that they were beaten there so badly that they knocked the stools out of their mouths. So if you can imagine the blow you have to take to have your molars knocked out, I don't think we can imagine that. So they were put in there in such a way that they basically broke those guys mentally and physically too I guess. Well, they keep them in custody for four months. It gets dark to the court of course and the district court sends them, one of them for 18 months, three of them get a year, so 12 months in Jáchymov."

"It was four guys who decided to leave. Through this Mr. Kožíšek, they got to an agent who, on 26 December, two days after Christmas, in the year 51, so he leads them beyond Tachov, they got to Tachov by train, and beyond Tachov he leads them into an alley, in the evening around seven-thirty, so he leads them into this alley that is just lined with State Security officers who are dressed in border guard uniforms. They're not even border guards, they're SS. Well, there's an attempt, two of the four of them tried, my dad and another one tried to jump off into some thicket somewhere, so just a desperate attempt to get away somewhere, but of course it didn't work. So they picked them up there, put them in trucks and took them to Plzeň."