Jan Gulec

"Otherwise, Frištát was not individually damaged. Although, when there was shooting between the Soviet and German troops, which were buried in the area of those Marklovice and Petrovice, some of the artillery shells flew in this direction as well. For example, I went with my father from the store in the evening... And we lived next to the former hospital insurance company, as it is in Nádražní street, so we had a barracks there. Shrapnels or something like that was flying along the road as it was exploding. But it wasn't so that there were too many barracks damaged by the war here in the city or in the surrounding area.''

"The city of Fryštát was pretty much, one can say, such a peaceful city during the war, because the war did not interfere all the way up here. It was not until the end of 1944, with the arrival of Soviet troops and the retreat of the Wehrmacht from these areas, that substantial changes took place. There were also various diversionary groups in this area. And then those fights were also quite significant at the end of 44 and 45, mainly in the area of the industrial part of today's Karviná, which means there in the area of Marklovice, in the area of Petrovice, in the area of - today - Mizerova. That's where the fighting took place.“