Ladislav Císař

"To this friend Jaroslav Císař, a wholesaler and manufacturer from Německý Brod, Horní street number seven, I dedicate all copyrights and publication rights to my literary piece of work. Winter in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands. Legally, unreservedly and free of charge, without entitlement to cigarette stubs and other social and material benefits that would result to me today and in the future. In proof of this, I am attaching my own handwritten signature with a clear conscience. Zdeněk Matěj Kuděj from Malkov, located in Radostovice. The witness was J. Zach.'

"I myself explain Čenek's death in this way, because I probably heard from aunt Zdenka that Čenek got the property from his parents and he promised his mother that he would take care of the other siblings. Also, all the time, if he could, he took care of them by employing them. Everyone made a living around those companies, and when he suddenly lost the companies and found out that he couldn't keep his promise, he simply couldn't take it and took his own life."

"She died of cancer. I think it was also a result of the nervous tension she experienced. Because when we were forced to leave Tasice, we moved here to Brod, and my father immediately went to the hospital, where, as I said, he died in 1946, my mother stayed with me and, of course, took care of money and everything. So one thing after another, she simply fell ill and died in the year fifty-seven.'

"Weapons that were used during the May fighting were hidden in the factory, and some of them were also handed over to partisan groups. He carried out various acts of sabotage in supplies intended for the German army, such as, for example, after an agreement with Colonel Vltavsky and Doctor Kremla, the supply of triangular glass prisms for tank periscopes was sabotaged very effectively. Uncle Čenek bribed agent 'A' with large sums of money, who ended up doing our illegal group a great service. Agent 'A' was shot by the Gestapo in the woods during his arrest."