Soňa Procházková

"They were fixing a car in the forest, somewhere in the direction of Nová Paka. So he went there on the evening of May 4 to look and they shot him. They put him on a wagon with horses and took him to Jičín to the hospital. Someone went there and my brother asked them to tell my father that they were taking him to the hospital. On the fifth, my father and I took our bicycles and rode to Jicin. Father spoke perfect German, so he went to ask the Gestapo where my brother was. Because we arrived at the hospital and they told us that the Gestapo had taken him away during the night. Dad went to ask the Gestapo, but they didn't know anything. Then on the 8th of May a telegram came from Lomnica saying that the funeral was to be held tomorrow. One farmer lent a horse, another farmer lent a carriage, and on the morning of May 9 we went to the funeral in Lomnica. There were five coffins in the Sokol room. In the middle was Kozak and he was the only one with a white coffin. They didn't know that Jara was also unmarried, nobody knew him there. It was only a friend who recognized him as Jarda Uhlíř. They apologized that he didn't get a white coffin, only Kozak. There were four coffins, and there was a white one in the middle. The resistance started early in Semily and they were afraid that when the funeral procession would go through Lomnica, the Germans would attack us. So they went somewhere to the side. They buried him and then we had him exhumed and on July 6 he was cremated in Semily.""

"He worked at OP Prostějov, it was a clothing factory. He worked there as an accountant and on June 4, 1957, when my daughter was eighteen months old, he went to work and came back in five and a half years. I was pregnant with Jara. Then, there was supposed to be a trial and everybody told me that when the trial was over my husband would come home. The trial was on about December 5, I didn't go to the trial and I asked when he was coming. They told me in ten years. In 1957, when Jára was to be born, I was in Liberec in Lesní Street to take care of something. The policeman told me that he was going to see my husband in court and if I wanted I could go with him and talk to my husband for a while."