Libuše Čevelová

"We walked around that prison, I know we walked around the windows and the prisoners were watching. They were there, but we didn't see Daddy. He was a political prisoner, that was all wrong, that was the worst thing that could have been." - "And when they took him to Poland, did you visit him there?" - "My mother went there with Mr. Janečka so that he could help her with translation for example. She told me that they met in a special room, they brought him there, he was completely devastated, they didn't know what to say to each other, so they kept quiet. Then the guard shouted 'over' and that was it. She hasn't seen him since. He wrote us letters. About once a month. It was brief, he couldn't write much, so it was just, 'How are you, and what about our piggy' and such. When he found out he had a death sentence, he wrote us to ask for a pardon. Mum submitted a petition, but they turned it down. Then he just sent a farewell letter. He wrote the letter the week before, he wrote goodbye three times for each of us, and that when you would be reading this letter, I would be on the other side already, it was so very unfortunate." - "How's that for the little girl?" - "Oh, I tell you, it was horrible. We found out before Christmas. I remember there was a towel by the door and a tin washbasin. She just kept crying in there. I saw her crying, so I cried too, but I don't think I fully understood the situation. She told me he was sentenced to death. She even let me read the letter."