Doc. PhDr., CSc. Zdeněk Kukal

“After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich a lot had changed. We were stuck at home, never leaving anywhere. Patrols were walking by, sometimes we heard some distant shooting, then they began with the night searches. From apartment to apartment, from house to house, one after another. Wehrmacht, police, Gestapo. It ended up well at our house – they found nobody.”

“By the end of the war, Jindřišská street where I had lived came to the center of attention. Prague Uprising had started there. The central post office was taken by the Czech resistance fighters while the SS-men controlled Jindřišská tower where they placed machine guns. We were in between, grounded in a shelter. These were four days of immense tension. From my window I could see the beginning of the shootout: some German officer began to shoot when they attempted to disarm him. This happened two hours before the shootout near the Czech Radio building.”