Miloslav Nekvasil

“I remember the barricades in every main street. We were members of SA units and they, unfortunately, began to terribly rage. They went to the cellars for the people who had been hiding from the air raids and the uprising, forcing them to open the barricades. The father of my friends from the Protestant church was shot dead. One classmate who went out on the street during the rebellion was also shot. Who peeped out was killed at once. It was very sad. It was here in Žižkov, around Pražačka, that was very exciting and bad because of SA members. One wondered what they were capable of. They were eighteen, nineteen years old. When we could go out on May 8, I saw a pile of dead that the Germans killed. The bodies were assembled in a corral at the Žižkov depot. It was terrible to me. And to this day it acts as a picture of mad brutality.”

“I must say that I did not excel at anything, but since childhood I have loved theater. It sounds incredible, but I was captivated by The Bartered Bride, which they played as a school performance. I liked so much that my mother got me a libretto somewhere and I wrote it down. I thought maybe we could play it as a school theater. Boys' school!”