Sebastián Košút

“They were interrogating us, but each one individually. As I found out, they detained at the same time more than a thousand people in the whole Poland. That´s how it was organized. My brothers were there, too. So we ended up in the prison and they interrogated us day and night. Nonstop. Practically said, one became so dull after such a time that he felt half-dumb. During the first nights they didn´t even let us sleep. However, I knew I didn´t have any official function there. I only gave those people opportunity to live there, perform, gather, etc.”

“Back then our friends already told me: ‘Send that priest Jozef away, because they’ll come and you both shall be arrested. So do it as soon as possible, because we have heard it from these and those.’ So I sent him to Warsaw, to Józefów. There he stayed for about two weeks, but then he came back. He didn´t manage it there. So we were together for another month or so. They said: ‘Send him wherever you want, but just send him away.’ So I sent him to Zakopane, into my friends´ house. But didn´t he perform such activities as they informed me then? And at last, he went to Slovakia, illicitly. There he got arrested on the way and they put him to prison. And when he returned, he was not physically, but emotionally broken. Now he lives inactive in a senior house in Spiš region.”