MUDr. Zdeněk Hlobil

"The Germans came after the whole group of Obrana národa quite intensively and in June, around the 26th of June, the Gestapo came and searched right through our entire house. Whole wardrobes were thrown out, all of the things that were in there. It happened that practically three weeks beforehand we had had at home, respectively father had at home a light machine gun, which before the coming of the Gestapo... basically the whole thing was moved somewhere else. They searched for the weapons and everything else and then arrested father. He was imprisoned in Uherské Hradiště, then in Brno, in Dresden, In Golnov near Stettin and then it ended in Berlin, in the year forty-three. And there on the 26th of January 1943 he was executed. Well, and only my mother went to visit him twice, but we could not go theree. We tried, for there to be some sort of legal path for him to be cleansed, basically for him to return home, but it was not possible. Only mother had to pay for that court advisor, who was supposed to sort it out."

"In the year thirty-nine he later [father Josef] joined Obrana národa. His father was the leader of a legionary group. The railroad group was especially strong, which then later secured the transport of fleeing people. It is said, that around two to four hundred people left the country through this railway group. We did not know this at all and the fact is, that I still cannot figure out, if on the last Christmas in the year 1939, when father said: 'Set the table quickly, I have to go to a birth,' I don't know, if it was by chance that at that time he was not also transportin someone, because besides the railway group there was also the legionary group. They secured the transport behind the second line for those fleeing across Horňácko to Velká, Kuželov, and Hrubá Vrbka, and he secured the transport of those people, who were fleeing behind the border. He made it possible for them to flee across Budapest, Belgrade, to the Far East or to France."