“Don’t trust the communist even if he is buried 15 meters under the ground, he could kick you anyway!”
Alojz Lenkavský was born on May 28, 1932, in Spišská Belá. He was raised to be a good Catholic. As a young boy he became a member of Christian chorus called Svornosť in Spišská Belá. Here he met his friends and later on they built a strong relationship. When communists took over the government, he witnessed many arrests of priests, so together with his friends he decided to found a branch of the White Legion (anti-state group) in Spišská Belá. The prime concern of this brand new group was to point at the way how communists treated church representatives and show it to people. Thus members of the group decided to distribute leaflets in Spišská Belá and its neighbourhood. The State Security revealed their group, so their planes were thwarted. Alojz Lenkavský was arrested on November 5, 1950, and a few days later he was also imprisoned. During his custody, he experienced investigation methods that the State Security used and he was forced to confess to various crimes he had never committed. On the main hearing that was held on June 12, 1951, Alojz Lenkavský was sentenced to death. Later, on February 22, 1952, the Court of Appeal revised it, so he was sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment. He served his sentence in various places of former Czechoslovakia (Košice, Leopoldov, military camp in Příbram, hospital in Pankrác or Jáchymov mines).