Radovan Dražan

„When the Germans came, this František Prokopec was the first, who simply came over to them. I don’t know if he had to file a request or make an agreement, but he rather made a deal with gestapo in Hradec to aryanizate the Jewish shop. Gestapo men came then. I was just an apprentice so out of it. They agreed and made him so called Treuhänderem, it was a German function, a kind of a Jewish middle man between Jews and [Germans]. Mr Prokopec, what he did, was he banned the boss any entry into the shop even with the blinds closed, when no one could see inside. Those were iron blinds creating shop windows. He would not let him in in the evenings, oh no, even changed the locks and all. It was changing and gestapo would often stop by.“

„There was a luxury surgery – dental as well as operating rooms and all. When a new delegation came, for example from the Red Cross or Vatican, they´d always show them. But only a few people got there and mostly they´d not come back as the SS men, who used the surgery, were making experiments. There was this ´totenkamera´ (Totenkammer meaning a morgue in German, editor´s note.), where docent Bláha, who owned Bulovka with Opočenský, so they were doing autopsies. For example a prisoner, who had a nice tattoo at his back, so they pulled the skin out and gave it to SS men. Prisoners would make a lamp or trousers of it. Or someone had golden teeth, so they´d pull them our and put them into little boxes.“