Marie Marešová

"One had to be heroic and just decide to handle the situation. The situation was put in front of us... Because we're believers, again, we communicated with our Lord, God, and I think that gave strength. I never had any intention of leaving him. No, I didn't. Stan appreciated that and said that in that prison many wives left their partners when they didn't have them at home. Or fiancées or whatever..."

"We would just not only go singing, but then we would split up into these little groups and we would meet in families, in groups of three, five or so - and I think I told you this on the phone - that we were being educated in the faith. We studied the New Testament, the Old Testament, and whatever was important at that time. And then somebody... somebody didn't like it or we don't know... It's possible that somebody knew where it came from, but I don't know myself. Somebody just said we were doing some underground activity or we were meeting outside... Like faith was allowed at that time, but what was happening around it was not allowed anymore. Or directly it wasn't forbidden, but it was prosecuted, at least I think so. Well, and it was just said that we used to meet in these circles somewhere, in families, and somebody always organized it - the leader of the circle. And unfortunately, suddenly they started investigating, arresting, searching... So my husband, who was also the leader of a boys' club - I didn't go there - was arrested at the Faculty of Science, where he was an assistant."