Božena Tomšová

"I remember there was this high wooden fence. There was a wire twisted at the top so you couldn't escape and stuff. And there were posts with soldiers with guns on them, making sure there was no running away. I, an idiot, many times ran to the fence. I was always curious about something. My sister always ran to find me, spanked me. But I survived... Sometimes there was some kind of inspection - once a German came there, an important one, and my oldest friend said: 'Go and sit on his lap!' And I, an idiot, went! I sat on his lap. And he was happy. Well. I was so cheeky."

"I know that my dad and mum had a restaurant in Prague in Vršovice, and it was in their flat that they found the bloody shirt of the paratrooper. And that was a proof, right. And it started. My parents had the assassins who assassinated Heydrich with them for about two or three days. Kubiš, Čurda. I don't know the names of the others. And Čurda betrayed them. The Germans then simply took the participants who had been hiding them to a concentration camp, to Mauthausen. Somehow I learned that my mother died in the gas chamber and that my father was shot. But I don't know more, I just found out - maybe from my grandmother. Because I couldn't read the death certificate because it was in German."