Eva Stodolová

“Well, during the war, my mom was headed for a suicide, for safety reasons. When they imprisoned my father, when he was arrested by the Gestapo, that was at the time of his second arrest, she said that they would come for her and that she would not be able to endure the torture and she would probably confess something. She was afraid that she would give away some information. For this reason, she had some poison at home, I don’t know what it was, but probably something which worked quickly, but of course we didn’t know what it was.”

“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.”