"Svatoš told me: ´It is a task related to a foreign country. We need to get a complete plan of all the arms factory buildings...´ It was for our exile government in London."
Ladislav Hošek was born August 4, 1924 in Čkyně in the former Vimperk district. A month after his birth the family moved to Strakonice to work there. Since his youth he has been an active Boy Scouts member, he loved teachers' narrating about Czech history, and he was led to patriotism. In 1942 he finished a three-year vocational trade school, then he took a course for display-designers in Prague. He began further studies at a trade school, which he finished after the war. In 1942 he joined the activities of the illegal resistance group of lead by Antonín Svatoš as a messenger. This former member of Obrana národa (Defence of Nation) moved to Křímice near Pilsen after the dispersal of the former resistance cell and his messengers were supplying him with information from the regions. Ladislav Hošek, who was meanwhile doing forced labour in the Strakonice ČZ factory, was providing Svatoš with information on arms production in the Strakonice region. Later Ladislav joined another illegal group, a regional group called Niva. After the outbreak of anti-German uprising in Strakonice, as a member of Niva he participated in arresting the Nazis. After the war Ladislav Hošek worked as a teacher.
