Libuše Gallová

"When Luboš was staying with us, a car pulled up in front of our house and three guys in fur coats got out. I said to my mother, 'The Gestapo is here!' Luboš grabbed his pistol and radio and ran to the first floor, saying he would jump out the window if they came in. But they asked for my father, because he was not only the mayor of Sokol at that time, but also the mayor of the village. We said father wasn't at home. We pretended at first that we didn't speak German in order to prolong it as much as possible and to give Lubos time to escape. But in the end I spelled out that father was at the municipal office. So they went there and picked him up. They needed him to go with them as the mayor to the farm where there was a denunciation for the illegal slaughter of a pig. That was not allowed during the war, you had to report the slaughter and hand over some of the meat, skin and fat. So they took my father with them, and the farmer was taken to the Gestapo in Jičín. The next day his wife came and cried with us, and so Daddy went to try it, he knew a lot of Germans in Jablonec because he had been going there all the war, and he also knew German in Jablonec, so he made inquiries there until he met a German who had a brother in Jičín in the Gestapo. He gave him a code, he didn't write or telephone, he was afraid, but my father went to the Gestapo in Jičín with the code and brought the farmer home. That was glorious! And do you know how he was rewarded after the revolution? After the revolution, the farmer said that my dad and our whole family had contacts with the Gestapo! That was my dad's reward. He was very disappointed. I wanted to go in there and smash his face. But father told me not to dare, that it wasn't worth getting dirty with such a man. One saves him from the Gestapo, and that's how he repays you."

"Luboš Jasínek was brought to us by a man named Burša and he didn't want our father to tell us about it. But father said he would tell the children straight out, so that we would know what was in store for us. So the day before Luboš was due to come, father told us that a parachutist would come straight from London and broadcast to us. So he was only broadcasting from us once, otherwise he was going over Malá Skala to Sokol or somewhere above Záborčí. And he used to go to Rovensko, where the other one, Závorka, was hiding, and he was staying with some Lukes. We didn't know exactly where he lived. We didn't find out until after the revolution. They didn't know that Luboš was with us. Because of the possibility of disclosure, it was never mentioned."