Ladislav Krejza

“I was arrested in 1967, the year 1956 was a period, when the Hungarian events took place and the first awakening of opposition powers in Poland grew and our secret police became angry. We were waiting something similar happens here too and thought it would be milder and when the ice melts, which happened only later in 1968, so we should be ready. So a group of young social democrats got together and we worked out a program of requirements and our political objectives in various parts of social life. There was a confident of the secret police amongst us, a man with a decent reputation with an academic education and two degrees. So the secret police was well informed and gradually they locked us all up in prison.”

“When I got to a lager, so Jan Krombholz, who was a kind of spiritus agens, an active spirit in the Catholic section, said: ‚If you got any solid literature, I got a good black contacts, we can smuggle it here through the shaft.‘ He wrote a letter home to his mum, I still keep it somewhere. I had to be a stiffly. He smuggled it, his sister sent it to our mum and she then delivered the book, she found after the secret police search to the sister of Mrs. Březinové in Vinohrady. Someone picked it up there and got it to lager.”