Karel Bořuta

"There was such a big, how to say… It fell apart. I was in the wall and I was throwing. I was in Karviná and there were four-meter layers. Not in Ostrava, there were forty centimeters in Ostrava, I was not there, but I was in Karviná. And there it fell. And there was also one part-time worker, well, it fell on him. It caught him. I managed to escape, we had to go into such a hole and they gave us, it was called a scraper, we threw coal at it. As it started to break, it started to hum, so we all had to run, but we couldn't all get in there, so the one who followed me hit me in the ass with a stone to move in. But there was nowhere to run. If it were possible, but it was not possible. And then, as we climbed to the main corridor, it stopped humming, it kind of stopped and it caught his legs, the legs of my friend. I saw it, so I got so scared that I resigned right away. I had to leave from there."

"The Germans drove a Red Cross car from Lhotka, and I saw that they took the German man, they went under the hill for him, they took him and opened the car. There was a scream, in that car! There were gunshots and many dead people. And they took him, threw him there, he shouted, he spoke, but nothing helped. And it was a terrible sight as we watched his guts hang from…"