Ludmila Šádková

“The fact he began building the house, caused so much hatred and someone denounced our father so they came to arrest him. The house was not finished yet. I remember exactly a black car arrived and stopped in front of our house. Two or three secret police got out and came into the house for our father. He was finishing something in the porch so they let him do that, change his clothes and took him along. He never came back home again. He was sentenced to prison as the class enemy for three and half year, which he served in the Opava prison.“

„I would like to say that after my father´s death we received a letter from prison to pay the amount due for his stay in prison, as he did not work appropriately. Mum sent an obituary and the matter was closed that way. We continued living in the deep totality. That meant people could basically do nothing; they could not travel and only had to do what they were allowed to do by the regime.”