Jan Dittrich

"My sister, who was born in 1953, so she was six years old, has traumatic memories of this. She was at home and she recalls, for example, that two men in leather coats came to see him [our father] and led him to the basement and then they were persuading him there... And that's actually how it went on, so I would say he was actually surveilled for the rest of his life. My parents also had a lot of contact with various evangelicals from the GDR. Well, and at that time a lot of those families were split, that some [relatives] were in East Germany, some were in West Germany. And a lot of times in Horní Krupá, because those West Germans could come here because of the currency, from the GDR it was not a problem [either], so those families would meet for example in our parish house. And then there's a curiosity that one member of the congregation was given the task of writing a report on the father, yeah. What was going on in the parish house and so on. Well, I don't know why that person had signed it, how they had made him sign it, but anyway, he came to my father and told him that he was in charge of that, and then they used to write the reports together."

"Dad found out that Václavík is not actually imprisoned, in an almost funny way, I would say. Mum was allowed to send a letter once every three Sundays, where she could write anything. My brother, who was born on May 30, 1950, was four months old at the time. When she wrote to him [the witness' father] that he weighed three and a half kilos, the number was blacked out because they thought it was some kind of code. But it remained there that she had met a person who had had a broken clock repaired for us. And that's how Dad found out that Václavík was free, because that Václavík worked at Chronotechna and promised us to have the clock repaired."