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Terminal station – lime works

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During World War II, the lime works near the village of Německá served as an incinerator for burning the bodies of Jews and political prisoners. They were herded here by train from Slovakia and eastern Bohemia. Helena Karafová was a girl at the time and together with her father, she was a member of a local guerilla group. They would wait on a hill by the railroad that was used for taking the prisoners to the lime works. “When the train was going to Banska Bystrica, it was crawling up the hill like a snail, very slowly.” People would jump from the train, trying to escape the death transport. Most were shot, but some managed to run to the guerrillas and thus save themselves. “When my dad pulled out a Jewish boy, he saved his life. He was twelve years old.” The parents of that twelve-year-old boy died a few hours later in the limestone works. “They weren’t put into concentration camps or gas chambers. In Banska Bystrica, there was a furnace, where they would throw them alive.”

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Helena Karafová

Helena Karafová

Helena Karafová was born September 11, 1922, in the town of Levice in Slovakia in the family of a bricklayer. During the war, she fled to the mountains near Banska Štiavnica with her father, where they went into hiding in a cave until the arrival of the Soviet army. She then operated as a liaison between the Soviet army and the domestic guerilla resistance groups. After she passed to the front line, she helped treating the wounded. After the war, she returned to Levice, in 1947 married and then moved to Prague.

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Vápenka v Nemecké na Slovensku se stala v lednu 1945 místem tragické smrti více než 1000 lidí, které zastřelili a v peci spálili členové Einsatzkomanda 14 z Banské Bystrice. Oběťmi byli židé, partyzáni a členové protifašistického odboje ze Slovenska, Francie a USA. Původní vápenka byla renovována a upravena jako pietní místo. Roku 1958 byl v její blízkosti postaven památník připomínající plamen pece.

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