I was phoning with a colleague in America, and I could hear several bugging devices clicking away in the phone. At that moment I couldn’t tell him not to come back here

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Marcela Wallenfelsová was born in 1932. She has lived her whole life in a house in Prague-Dejvice. She was there during the war, when the Hitlerjugend and later Svoboda’s army had their base of operations nearby. During the Prague Uprising the witness’s house served as shelter for a group of rebels because they could use it to fire at the Fascist position. The Germans shot the house to bits with a tank, and Marcela Wallenfelsová and her family had to abandon the ruins of their home. She graduated from secondary school and went on to obtain a degree in geology and geography. She and her husband devoted themselves fully yo science, but they refused to join the Communist Party, which caused considerable complications for their work. Furthermore, her brother emigrated. She and her family spent several years in Cuba and Peru due to her husband’s work stays abroad.