Danuška Lehárová

„About a month after the trial, and I did not know it at all, they took him to Bernau in Bawaria. My son-in-law once took me there about ten years ago. We went to have a look around and found his grave. He is buried in Prien, a county town. But it was not a lager, but a penitentiary. They still died there the same as in concentration camps. There were some swamps, peat bogs, and they were digging in there and my husband got ill. But I did no know about it, we had no connection. On 15 April 1944 I got an announcement of his death.“

„You know, the mills were all working illegally. That is how it was, the villages around here (that is Chrudim), Dražkovice, there a wheat harvest was collected in fields, and saved and transported on a rack wagon (into the mill). My husband knew some police officers so he knew if the air was clear and they´d come with the wagon and the harvest was milled. Some bloke called Kratochvíl was in charge. In the mill flour was sold fifteen crowns for coarse and ten for smoothly milled and this Kratochvíl, who organised it would sell it in Prague for eighty. They caught him at Masarykovo station, so called flying commission, and it was a big issue. They took my husband on 17 March, 1943.“