I know nothing about the night I was arrested. My memory failed
Lubomír Dvořák was born on 4 March 1930 in Jihlava. His father Jaroslav Dvořák ran a convenience shop and his mother had a franchise for selling coal and wood. In 1938, the witness joined Cub Scouts group in Jihlava. During the German occupation, witness´s father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for listening to a foreign radio and sentenced to three years in prison. After the Communist coup, the parents‘ franchise was nationalized and revoked. In September 1949, witness´s father was accused of anti-state activities and in a show trial with the group „Veselý Karel and associates“ he was sentenced to an unconditional sentence of 12 years. Later, the arrest of the witness himself is supposed to have taken place in Znojmo. He does not remember anything of this arrest and the subsequent interrogation, because the shock he suffered caused his mental breakdown and memory loss. The interrogation may have been connected with the arrest of the Scouts from Jihlava, especially the convicted Bohumil Kiba, who was a witness´s close friend. He completed his compulsory military service from April 1951 to December 1953 with the units of the Auxiliary Engineering Corps (AEC). As a result of all the events, his mother‘s mental health deteriorated, and she had to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. The witness was subsequently employed in a national enterprise in Jihlava, which carried out road construction, but here too he had difficulties due to his class background and he left his job. After 1989 he joined the „Old Scouts“, searched up the names of his former 60th AEC company members and participated in organizing annual reunions. He celebrated his 90th birthday in 2020 and was living in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou at the time of recording (March 2022).