Eva Stodolová

“During the war, father got to prison again for the second time, because he continued with his resistance activity, of course. And somehow it got discovered, because they were transmitting messages, they were sending radio messages to London. That means that they were transmitting from here, and people from London were sending messages to us. And they were the people who operated the transmitter, they were the paratroopers who got here to us, or perhaps even soldiers who had been originally in the Czechoslovak army, and they established connection with London. Well, but the transmitters had to be moved constantly, because Germans were able to localize them. They had a kind of a car, perhaps you saw it in some film, and the car had a ring-shaped device on the roof, how to describe it, something like a circle, which looked like a TV antenna, or something like that. And they were riding the car around and intercepting the signals and locating the places from where they were being transmitted. One transmitting session therefore could not last too long, and secondly, they had to change the locations. They were therefore transmitting from several places in Modřany, like from the Skála family in Třetí Baby, or I think from Sejkora family’s place in Komořany, and from our home, too. We had some transmitter hidden inside the wall there. I actually don’t even know how everything was, but simply it happened that this group was discovered, and then there were arrests.”

“Another thing I remember is the terror which followed after Heydrich’s assassination in 1942. He was assassinated and policemen were then going from house to house and they were carrying photos of the assassins, the paratroopers who had eliminated Heydrich. They were showing to people the photos of the briefcase and the raincoat or whatever it was. Those were things that had been found there, and a bicycle, too, I think. Well, and I was overjoyed to see it, and I was enthusiastically jumping with joy that they came to us, too, to show us the pictures. It was actually so horrible, everybody was scared and if by any chance something had been found - there was a martial law in effect at that time - and that person would have been sentenced to death without too much hassle and they would have been shot immediately. And I actually thought that it was funny, because they were carrying those pictures of things and showing them around.”