I am surprised that my father and uncle never got bitter
Marie Schwarzová, née Šmejkalová, was born in 1946. Her father and uncle were imprisoned soon after February 1948. Uncle Václav Šmejkal was the director of a high school in Ústí nad Labem. A student showed him an anti-communist leaflet. The director did not turn his students in; instead he gave the leaflet to his brother, which proved fatal for both. The witness‘s father and uncle served the majority of their sentence in Jáchymov. As a result the witness almost never met her father during her childhood. Both brothers emigrated to the West after 1968.