Marie Mezerová

"In our house there was a house caretaker, and he was a confidant of the Gestapo. Because I know, that after the war, about a week after it ended, some man came by, still with that Revolutionary Guard, with that soldier, or whatever he was back then, and they took our house caretaker away, because he was snitching on people, and always had the stamp of "Administrator of house Čáslavská 6" on the tip-off. And this person, that came for him with that Revolutionary Guard, was placed on a minefield. And he returned, saved himself, and found in some archive of that Pečkárna specifically this house caretaker, that he had been giving tip-offs there, and that apparently that boy had snitched on my brother, that he was giving out those fliers. They were weird people, as people say. We weren't scared of him, that caretaker, while all the other residents in that house were terribly scared of him. And so when that caretaker opened up at five thirty in the morning to three Gestapo officers, that they were going after my father, then immediately the people in that house started to steer clear of our family. Only one family tried to help my mother, but the others were scared. They were scared, I understand it."

"Ever since I could first remember my mom and dad, I had a hidden handkerchief. It was the first time, that we were taking the laundry from Pankrác, that it was to be washed. It was for the last time, then the Germans cancelled it, it was always once every fourteen days. And so in that dirty laundry there was a handkerchief, which we could see had been washed, somewhere in the corner there was blood, and when mom opened it, there was written in the corner B U H - God. Out father was a Catholic and believed, but my mother, a reader of detective novels, says: 'B U H, that is: They will look for Újezdec (Budou Újezdec Hledati), father definitely has something there, because why else give this message?' And so she actually went there. We rode on the train together then, it was interesting, there were these American pilots that attacked locomotives. And well father did actually have weapons in the garden there. In the garden there was, suddenly, without explanation, a rabbitry built, over the whole summer holidays, even though otherwise the rabbitries were completely somewhere else. And well father said: 'Here you have also something to do. You will take care of the rabbits, so that you can feel some happiness.' And so there were about four rabbits there. 'And so you'll go get grass, you'll clean it, feed it, and so on.' And behind that rabbitry he actually had hidden the weapons. Then later mother found out, and well, it didn't benefit her health much. She also had heavy diabetes. And that's how she explained this message. I sometimes explain it to myself that maybe he was really trying to have God help him."