„But someone probably denounced me and I guess I know who. I learnt only later, when I came back, that he was a kind of communist secretary, who lived in the opposite house and wanted to take revenge. So of course the leaflets were slipped. (And how did you get to them? Where did you take them?) I got them by regular mail. (People used to get such leaflet back then?) Well it was in the envelope and no one knew what was inside. (And you do not know what was inside? You never figured out?) I did not know who made those, but it was a kind of a communist rebellion. How he got to those leaflets, I never learnt either. (And you do not know, what the communist secretary wanted to take revenge for?) Indeed I do know. We went dancing with my friend in a winery. He came for me and I did not go, as he was a communist. And he said that to my friend, who he lived with, that he was going to take revenge. So he did.“
„Mum was also arrested as she knew about the leaflets. But she had an acquaintance, a primary, doctor Laskafeld in the Jihlava hospital. She taught her son so we knew each other and he took mum there. (Daughter-in-law: It was a psychiatric clinic.) He took her to treatment and did not let the secret police near her as he claimed she was insane and unable to get interrogated so she take refuge there.“
„And he taught a young boy from Štok, as the place also established a cinema. Back then the young boy wanted to attend a meeting of Sokol in Znojmo and he begged his father, if he could substitute the screening for him at the weekend. So he agreed. But back then the films were inflammable, highly inflammable. Sometimes it happened that it went inside the holes in a wrong way and it got on fire. So it happened to him that the film ignited. So he tore it away and threw behind him. But there was a helper, who was ready to get rid of the fire. And daddy was not looking and threw it behind him in the prepared... a kind of a metal box with films inside. He threw it in and it exploded. He got so shocked, the assistant did, that instead of throwing a blanket over it, he ran away and smashed the door. There was no door handle inside, just the key, which fell out.“
Eva Schwarzová, née Hodačová, was born on 12 October, 1925 in Dobronín. Her father died under tragic circumstances, when she was ten years old. With her mother and a sister they moved to Jihlava, where their German house lord ceased their rental at the beginning of war. They spent wartime with their relatives in Čáslav. At the end of war the witness served a forced labour. She wished to become a painter and after war she started at the UMPRUM in Prague. In 1948 a communist secretary, who she refused to dance with, gave her anti-state leaflets and denounced her. Along with her also her mother was arrested, who finally managed to avoid it. Eva Schwarzová was locked for four and half months and then kicked out of school. All her life she worked as a window screen arranger. After 1989 she managed to defend a title of an academic painter. Eva Schwarzová passed away on December, the 16th, 2017.
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