Miloš Fric

"But on May 7 I remember I was in the street at about four in the afternoon. My mother talked to the other neighbour and we waited for my grandmother to come out of the church. There were May devotions, and my grandmother was terribly godly, so she went to the church. She was there almost all the time. As there was something happening, it was rushing in there. So we were waiting for her. We kept waiting. And grandma was not coming. And just a bit down the street, two houses from us, the corner of the house under the owl was shot off. The bullets whirled around us, we could hear them in the air. Grandma was nowhere. And suddenly she appeared, walking very slowly, almost crawling."

"At the time of the German occupation, after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Reich Protector, the uncle of Mrs. Hejplikova was hiding by the Hejpliks, who had a civic ID card issued illegally by Mr. Hrdlicka, the secretary of state. Mr. Hrdlicka was arrested by the German state police, the gestapo, he told them what he knew during interrogation, and among all those people was also Mrs. Hejplik's cousin. Perhaps his uncle had a son. So the Gestapo came to Hejpliks. An order for their arrest was issued, sent to the Chodov police station and the head police at the police station, I found out that he was called Jan Jeřábek (it says there, but I did not know his name), came to the house where the family lived. It was a house in Opatov, today's street number 11. Hhere I have a photo in front of the house. [bell] The Hejpliks were not at home, drying hay near the swimming pool in Milíčov. Mrs. Hanuš had to go with the policeman to show him where they were. She walked, actually almost running so far away from the police officer who had let her run. She rushed to them to tell them what was going on, but they just waited for the officer to come and arrested them. Well, they could not run anywhere, where would they run, when an arrest warrant was issued... He led them to the municipal office, locked them in a small locked chamber called a dressing room in the cellar. In the morning the police picked them up and brought them to Pečkárna, today in Opletalova Street. At that time the so-called martial courts were in operation, where they were immediately sentenced to death. A day later there was a long list in the newspaper with the names of those, who were sentenced to help the enemy of the Greater German Empire. Among them were also the husbands Hejpliks."