Jan Ungár

"I still vividly remember Kalandra, even if it's only fragmentary memories, I remember going to their apartment, number five, after the war, after he returned from the concentration camp and before his arrest. And I also want to say that I didn't come into contact with his wife until after his execution. I didn't even perceive what was wrong with him, somehow I didn't understand why Kalandra was no longer there, nobody gave me any information about it. I even remember that as a small child I listened to the trial as it was going on with my grandmother in her house outside Prague. The Horáková trial was broadcast on the radio. My grandmother listened to it and had some comments. As a small child I didn't understand it at all, somehow it didn't touch me that my uncle was being tried for something, I didn't understand what for, that he was answering to some judges, and so on."

"She recalled how State Security behaved when Arnošt Ungár was arrested, saying that far from the Gestapo acting and behaving in such a way towards her, State Security immediately stole, loaded what was left of the dentist's office from the opposite house, took everything out, everything except the technical laboratory and the metal cabinets that belonged to it, confiscated all the dental equipment. They didn't even give my mother any receipt. When she wanted it to be written down and given some kind of stamp, they told her: Madam, shut up or we'll take you with us."