Danuše Svatoňová

"I went to lock the garden and a car stopped, two gentlemen got out and asked me if my uncle was home. And I said, 'We don't have an uncle.' And he said, 'Well, the gentleman who lives with you.' And I said, 'Nobody lives with us.' 'Well, we're going to see your father.' So they went. Mummy was just breastfeeding Jana. When they came in, she and Daddy were talking in the next room, and Daddy took his coat and went. And I said, 'Daddy, where are you going?' And he said, 'Don't worry, I'll be back.' And he never came back. We didn't know he was dead for a long time, we only found out from the newspaper. At that time, all the executed people were in the newspapers."

"My father was executed here at the barracks in Tábor. They were loaded onto trucks and taken to Tábor at six o'clock in the evening. They said that the whole hospital had to draw the curtains to that side, to the barracks, and that they were shot there. Then they threw them on a car and took them to Budějovice to the cemetery. And there's a place in the cemetery in Budeěovice, a memorial, and it says that they threw them from the car into a pile before they took them to the crematorium. Then they took them to the crematorium. We don't have anything from Daddy, nothing! We got nothing at all..."