Eva Stodolová

“Another thing I remember is the terror which followed after Heydrich’s assassination in 1942. He was assassinated and policemen were then going from house to house and they were carrying photos of the assassins, the paratroopers who had eliminated Heydrich. They were showing to people the photos of the briefcase and the raincoat or whatever it was. Those were things that had been found there, and a bicycle, too, I think. Well, and I was overjoyed to see it, and I was enthusiastically jumping with joy that they came to us, too, to show us the pictures. It was actually so horrible, everybody was scared and if by any chance something had been found - there was a martial law in effect at that time - and that person would have been sentenced to death without too much hassle and they would have been shot immediately. And I actually thought that it was funny, because they were carrying those pictures of things and showing them around.”

“Well, during the war, my mom was headed for a suicide, for safety reasons. When they imprisoned my father, when he was arrested by the Gestapo, that was at the time of his second arrest, she said that they would come for her and that she would not be able to endure the torture and she would probably confess something. She was afraid that she would give away some information. For this reason, she had some poison at home, I don’t know what it was, but probably something which worked quickly, but of course we didn’t know what it was.”