Hana Pelikánová

"Or we were confirmed in Prague. At that time there were a lot of dissidents there who were confirmed by Cardinal Tomášek, my godmother at that time was Sister Magdalena Schwartzová, also a dissident, a fighter against communism, she was imprisoned under the fascists and communists, so Father František Lízna gave her to me as my godmother. At that time, in that church, the State Security officers were palpable. There were also a lot of people from the Charter who were confirmed there, and the Chartists were their godparents. You could feel the negative energy of them so strongly. I was standing and there was a guy standing next to me who was very nervous, as if he was full of devils, and I thought to myself, 'Well, he's clearly a State Security officer.' And more of those men who just stood there frowning were around, but fortunately they didn't intervene. My husband's godfather was Father František Lízna."

"When they did the search, our first son, the oldest, was six months old. We used to go to see Vlahovič in Moravská Huzová - he was also a chartist. Then we went to see Tomáš Hradílek in Lipník, to see his father František Lízná, who lived in Velke Opatovice, with his mother at that time, he was without state permission, he was often imprisoned. So one day we went somewhere like that, I think to the Vlahovič´s place, the State Security officers took advantage of the fact that we were not at home. My husband's mother was looking after our six-month-old son, and they broke in, and they did a complete search of the whole house, and he was crying all the time because he was afraid of the foreign men. That was so rough, when we arrived at midnight, for example, and now we saw the place, the havoc and the State Security officers... it was such a rough situation."