“But there they were not beating us anymore. It was already 1953, and they were no longer beating people that much.”
Josef Černohorský was born April 11th 1935. He spent his childhood years in Domažlice. His father lieutenant colonel Josef Černohorský was a Czechoslovak army officer and during the war he was imprisoned in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in relation to the Jan Smudek case. After the war the family moved to Pilsen, where the father was working at the army command. The father was arrested in 1950 and sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment for alleged anti-state activity (the group Josef Kučera and comp.). He was held in the Leopoldov prison and released only in the amnesty of 1960.
Josef Černohorský attended a grammar school, which was however closed down in 1948. He transferred to vocational training for electro-technicians in the Škoda factory in Pilsen, which he completed in 1952 and then began working in this factory. In June 1953 he was arrested for alleged participation in the Pilsen uprising and he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment. He was imprisoned in the camp Barbora in the Jáchymov region, where uranium ore was mined, he was working there as a trammer. After his release he was working in the Construction Company of the City of Pilsen all the time till its closing down in 1990. During his work he also studied evening classes of a secondary industrial school. In 1990 he was rehabilitated and he also founded a plumbing business with his colleagues, from which he then retired. He is a member of the Confederation of Political Prisoners and till 2008 he also served as the chairman of its Pilsen chapter.
