We collected information for the Western courier, who denounced us
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Otakar Nigrin was born on 12th January, 1927 in Benešov, where the Nigrin family ran a printing house with thirteen employees. During war the witness trained as a compositor and a printer at his father and studied academy of commerce in Prague. He recalls the leaving of the German occupants from Benešov as well as executions of the Gestapo men, who were brought back from Germany by the group led by Josef Dráb after liberation. Following February 1948 the communists confiscated the printing house from the Nigrins. The father worked as a compositor in Prague printing houses until retirement. After graduation in 1948 Otakar Nigrin could not attend high school for the class reasons and was placed amongst 70 people forced to go to production, where he apprenticed a carpenter. Around 1950 he joined the Benešov resistance group led by Josef Doubrava. After the betrayal of false courier who passed information, he got arrested by the secret police. In 1953 the witness was sentenced to two years in prison, which he served in Pankrác, where he worked in prison printers. After a year he got out during amnesty suffering by tuberculosis. His grand-uncle, Karel Nigrín, was an important participant of the second and third resistance, twice sentenced to death penalty. In 1968 he co-founded the Club of former political prisoners K231 and became his chairman.
