Jan Simandl

„They locked them up both, that bloke and the young one, they put them in front of a public trial in Moravské Budějovice and sentenced them. The bloke got two years and the young one just one year, which was not too bad. But a part of the sentence was confiscation of their property to the state. And a ban of staying in Moravské Budějovice region for ten years and fifteen years to stay in the village… those were the properties they inherited from their parents, it was all confiscated and they even chased them out of it, it was impossible to figure out, how is that possible. But that was simply the reality... they moved the family to Liberec and they had to feed farm animals and when the guys served their punishment, they followed them and worked there too.“

„I thought that´s all right, they are already giving away leaving reports and I will go in the afternoon, so I ran to the office with a travel fever. In front of the office there was a black tatraplan, that was the best car then... I announced myself in an army manner to my commander and there was a civil dressed guy too asking me: ‚Are you who and who, born then and there...?‘ And I said: ‚Yes.‘ He turned around holding a gun pointing at me and said: ‚Put your hands up, you are arrested.‘ Believe me or not, I just began to laugh... I simply did not trust it was really true. (...) Then they let me get undressed naked, took everything away from me, let me dress up again and said: ‚Now you will sit in the back of the car, you cannot make a single step out of the way, nor talk to anyone, otherwise I shall use the gun.‘“