Ivana Peričková

"We did not plan for it to be a demonstration, but we expected more people to come. We wanted to print an obituary and failed on the first attempt because they refused to print that he died in prison. Mrs. Wonková insisted it had to be on the obituary, so one morning very early, my husband and I went to Prague to see Libuška Šilhanová. And she, through Joska Skalník and the Jazz Section, printed the obituary for us that day just as we wanted. And we already had the envelopes ready, and on the way back from Prague, we threw the envelopes in different mailboxes so that if someone followed us, they wouldn't pick it up right away. And the local undertaker also posted it on the notice board here." - "Did it last there?" - "Yeah, yeah, it was behind a glass. He was pretty brave. He was a little scared at first, but then he said nothing can be done."

"Hanička Jüptnerová and I went to see the film Gandhi in Jilemnice, and when we went home, she said: 'Well, kids, I'll tell you something. We're going to go on a chain hunger strike." And so we did go on a chain hunger strike, and we sent correspondence to Pavel like: I'm hunger striker number one, number two, number three. And I think I've seen that somewhere at home now that I still have it. Oh, how I salute him and wish him well. So it's also gone through Free Europe and the Voice of America that we're holding a hunger strike for Paul Wonka. And Ivan Medek commented on it at the time that he was also on a hunger strike for Pavel Wonka, saying, 'We have enough mineral water in Vienna.'"