JUDr., CSc. Ervín Najman

They came to arrest me on Thursday night and I was not at home. I was with my wife at the Green Market, where Vysehrad held a devotion. So they came for me the next morning and I stayed there for eighteen months. The arresting was carried out badly. They came and told me I´m going to be transferred to the forced labor camp. I was not sentenced, I went immediately to the forced labor camp in Ostrava. There has been no trial. Still, I wrote letters for relasing,. I wrote I do not know what I did. But they've always responded: "Your request is not suitable." They wrote this to me by about ten times.

I once released [as a labor supervisor] a Slovak. He went home and I told him to go to my parents and told them that I was locked up. And he went to them and told them that I had been executed. Then there was celebrated a Mass for me. He was a kind of mad man... I did not know what kind of man he is. He seemed to me to be a good man. But he was not good and told my parents that I was executed on certain day. My parents let serve a Mass for me and I came back home then. If you could see my mom how happy she was ...