Suzanne Bartosek

„They (morticians – editor´s note) has a really strong battery, and went around the flat searching for the dead person. Only then they found (the son) Ivan, who was fast asleep. He was around twenlve years old. So they woke him up and Ivan told them that was impossible dad would die as he only saw him a little while ago and he had to return back home in pain (stomach issues). Ivan was quite calm and went for Natashia. The morticians didn’t know what to do so they packed it all in together with the coffin.“

„(Václav Havel didn’t) have the same philosophy as my husband. In 1970s during normalisation, until 1983, we were not here anymore, and although we didn’t have the same philosophy, we belonged together. That was a big plus. As there was a large solidarity and we belonged together. The Catholics, like Hejda and Havel, or a Marxists, like my husband. Of course he was not a communist, but a Marxist. And so was our big friend, Karel Kosík. But we did belong together.“