Bad and the worst memories

In November 1944 the family of Mrs. Mária Kormanová was interned in the camp in Dubnica nad Váhom. “They led us there under automatics. I remember it like today there were such short and elongated barracks with bunk beds from which our heads stuck out. There were so many of us that we slept one next to the other, there wasn´t even a small spot left. Men were at one side, women with children at the other one, that´s how they took our father from us.” Mrs. Kormanová has the worst memories of Farbár, the camp´s high-muck-a-muck of Romany origin. “It was cruel. What they did with our women! They stripped them, beated them, poured cold water over them. It´s impossible to describe what happened there. It was terrible. And all of this led one Romany man, who got this function from Germans and who thrashed us. Germans placed him there as a screw. I just remember his name was Farbár. Comparing to Germans he thrashed us. I don´t know whether he was paid for it. I remember once when I went to beg for food, he hit me with a nightstick so hard that I fell down.” Mrs. Kormanová lively recalls frightening scenes of how the German soldiers chose pretty women in the camp and raped them. “You know, at first they took the pretty women. For example, my sister-in-law, my brother´s wife was beautiful. She was pregnant in the fifth month. They caught her, raped, and that´s how she ended up there… It was truly a horror. When the Germans saw a nice girl, they took her, dragged down to such a casing and there they raped her. Pretty women used to smudge their faces by soot just so that the Germans wouldn´t choose them and drag somewhere.”