Jiří Boháč

"I rode a bike home and kept the bike hidden in a service room. I was going to the room to get the bike, and the station master Mr. Šťastný was standing in the door, with two men in leather coats by his sides. One of them stepped in my way and said: 'Geheime Staatspolizei.' There was no way I could talk to the station master or to them, they took me - one in the front, one in the rear - to the car parked in front of the station."

"We came to the flat. There was a Telefunken radio set on the cupboard. There was a device inside the radio that my dad made that let me listen to the news that you couldn't listen to otherwise. (The Gestapo man) came to me, pushed my back, took me to the cupboard and pointed to the radio. I had to take the radio."

"If you worked hard, you could work your way up from the pickaxe and shovel to the office, perhaps. People are very demanding these days. Their demands ... Sadly, all they see is the wrong things. Fraud here, bribery there, this is hardly justifiable."

"I started at the Gestapo in Budějovice; from there they took us to Terezín, and from there to Pankrác. At first, they took us to those who were to be sentenced first. After the judgment, they sent us to Germany. I went through several camps and prisons there."

"They told us we were going to the Straka Academy. They took us to the cellar and we had to wait for an hour. Then those who brought us there came for us. They put on their judge robes in front of us, sat behind the table, and sentenced us. It was a farce. The ex officio counsel could not speak Czech, and didn't even need to. It took less than half an hour. The sentence: Jáchym, Pechman, Prokeš: Zum Tode verurteilt (death sentence)."