“We all lived in our homes. We only met if some action was planned. I think we controlled the town of Prostějov.”
Bedřich Hájek was born August 2, 1920 in Prostějov. In 1942 he was to go on forced labour to Germany. He was assigned to work in Dresden. At first he learnt to operate a lathe. Since he was proficient in languages, he became a foreman and later he worked as a clerk in the camp in Gittersee. In January 1944, following his mother's death, he was released from the camp and returned to Prostějov, where he joined resistance activity. He became a member of the local partisan group Prostějov. He stole the weapons of the local Volkssturm with this group at the end of the war, and owing to this, Prostějov was then liberated without a single shot fired. As a partisan, after the war he became a member of the local national committee, where he worked in the cultural section. Shortly after that he moved from Prostějov to Uničov, where he lives today. He graduated from the University of Business in Prague, after that he was working in the machinery works in Uničov, where he remained till his retirement.
