Jindřich Rejnart

"Father was arrested on March 15 for anti-state activities. His anti-state activity consisted in the demolition of the Choceň tunnel at that time, just behind the station. And it was done there by the national company Konstruktiva. There was an anti-communist cell that led all the way to the Czech Post. Some mail staff members joined in, and because they knew their father's beliefs, they urged him if he would like to join too. According to my mother he refused. He was no hero and he said he would not go. He had a wife and children here, at that time there was already a sister next to me. Of course, the communists were already on the track of the cell, and the members, when they found out, just ran across the border and caught some near Znojmo. Well, this whole group of about ten people was arrested. Among them was his father, who was blamed for the fact that, as the postal director, who knew that some anti-state activities were developing there, that he had not reported it, they gave him a paragraph that I do not know... Well, he was convicted for that for serving half a year in prison, maybe I guess three quarters."

"Already during the job in Slovakia, I decided that I wanted to get to university, but not to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, but that I would try it at the Academy of Fine Arts. Well, I went to exams here, I guess it was in 1959. And it was in March. Well, I passed those tests. And suddenly I was accepted. I remember how the tests lasted about five days, and a week later the results were announced and posted on a pole, and I was lucky enough to see myself among the twelve people who had been accepted. Well, it was very lucky for me, so I lived in great euphoria. I came home, my father was also very happy that I got to such a school. Of course, I continued to work in the glassworks. And exactly on the fifteenth of July almost, I know that it was around my holiday, I received a letter from the Ministry of Education stating that after examining all the circumstances of my admission was abducted, that I do not meet all the conditions for admission to college and that my admission was cancelled."