On August 2, 1971, he transported the escaped Karel Boček in a truck to Germany
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Ondřej Krišanda was born on February 20, 1940 in Velká Lesná, Slovakia. He comes from a farming family with ten children. After primary school he spent six months as a bricklayer in Košice, then worked as a bricklayer in Tachov. From the age of fifteen he worked as a circus performer in the Kamzik circus, first as a labourer, later as a performer at the horses. In the second half of the 1950s he went to Japan and India with the circus. In 1961, however, he was injured, so he began to earn a living as a driver for the national company Chema. Since 1964, he had been a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). In April 1967, he began working for ČSAD of the capital city Prague as a truck driver, and from May 1969 as an international freight driver. In February 1971, he was elected chairman of the company’s Communist Party organization. When Ing. Karel Boček, former general director of the Uranium Industry, escaped from investigative custody through a window of the Pankrác Prosecutor’s Office on July 6, 1971, Karel Boček’s father contacted Ondřej Krišanda and asked for help. Krišanda agreed to smuggle Boček to the West. He hid him in his truck and on August 2, 1971, transported him to the Federal Republic of Germany. After this action was exposed, Ondřej Krišanda was arrested on September 25, 1971, and sentenced to three years in prison for aiding in the illegal departure from the republic. However, thanks to an amnesty in 1973, he did not have to serve the sentence. He was banned from traveling to the West and had to leave ČSAD. He joined Metrostav, where he worked for 25 years. After the Velvet Revolution, he resumed working as a truck driver. He settled in Unhošť.