Irena Zemanová

"He was preparing for the fact that when he left, he would be abroad in some cabaret to sustain himself. He died while trying to cross the border in Znojmo. They called us there, and we had to identify him. He touched the wires. He was ready to run away. He was wearing a dark blue suit with a tracksuit over it. He went across the border, there were probably more of them, but we didn't know anything about it. He told us that he was going on vacation to the Vranovská dam. Then they called us because he had his high school diploma as his only document. He had leather mittens that had braids, and as he crawled, he had a stick in his hands that he used to lift the barbed wires that had electricity in them, and that one barb from the wire pierced the braid on his mitten. That was the end."

"I was baptized, but I think it wasn't until I was a student. There were three of us then. It was during totalitarianism, and it was a bit problematic. We wanted to get baptized, so a brother baptized us at Pisárky in Svratka. At other times baptisms took place, for example, at the swimming pool in Líšeň, because baptism is the immersion of the whole body in water. Just as John the Baptist baptized in the Jordan, we also baptize by immersing the whole person. So the three of us were baptized one day in Pisárky, sometime in the early evening."