The journey to freedom ended in Uherské Hradiště

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The brother of a contemporary witness, Eva Vrbová, was a partisan during the war, so after the liberation in 1945 he was highly esteemed by the Communists. They offered him membership in the Party, even the State Security was interested in him. He accepted neither. Instead, he headed for Austria with the determination to shoot his way to freedom, in case such a situation would occur. In Vsetín, he was arrested by an old friend, who was now in the ranks of the “defenders of the border”, but he did not take his weapon away from him. Jaromír started to run and his answer to the shooting of his former friend was – a lethal injury. Then he asked his friends whom he trusted for help. The contemporary witness recounts the following: “At the time, there were too many traitors. Friends, whom he thought he could trust, promised to take him to Austria; they had come to pick him up, but in a car... They took him to Uherské Hradiště to Grebeníček. He was to be hanged... My parents decided not to tell me. My father and Bohumír had gone there (that is, to the last visit before the execution). Not even my mother had gone, she wouldn’t have been able to bear it. His wife Adélka was there. If she took her children with her, I’m not sure, but probably not. He was completely reconciled, he believed in God. We weren’t interrogated, they just kept watching us. We had been to the trial. That was terrible, I wouldn’t wish that for anyone. The labourers were so aroused and believed it all so much! We saw, how the boys were just reciting it all, Jaromír was in complete apathy, he answered to everything, right, and it was obvious that he had no idea what he was saying. And the judges spoke frantically and the labourers were all on their feet... It was very uncomfortable. And my mother – until this day, I can see how she was holding her bag on her lap and her hands were shaking... It is horrifying to recollect all this. We were there as spectators, who had bought their tickets, of course.”

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Eva Černá, née Vrbová

Eva Černá, née Vrbová, was born on 24 December, 1925, in the village of Stražisko in the region of Prostějovsko. Her family lived in a house that was located away from the rest of the village and her dad had a huge garden shop there. Eva had two older brothers, Jaromír and Bohumil. During the war, the whole family was involved in the resistance movement. Jaromír was a slave laborer in the Reich. He later fled and became a partisan in 1944. After February 1948, he became involved in the so-called "third resistance" and was arrested in 1950. He was sentenced to death. Her second brother was a slave laborer in Lutín. He later became a member of the partisan group of Pepa Novák. Eva, her husband, and her parents supported the partisans operating in the neighboring area in various ways. After their activities were revealed in the beginning of 1945, Eva's husband Vojtěch joined the partisans. Eva, her parents, and her son, who was just a few months old, had to go into hiding. At first, they were hiding at a family's household in Moravičany in the Olomouc region and later in a shelter built by the partisans in a nearby forest. Under very primitive conditions, they were able to hold out till the liberation. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, the whole family reunited again. After the war, she and her husband, who was a teacher by profession, moved to a little village named Křemenec. However, because of their religion, they fell into disfavor. They settled for a longer period in Budětsko, where her husband worked as a director of a local school. Eva worked as a teacher there. In 1968, her husband publicly condemned the Soviet occupation and was fired from the school. Their daughter, Lenka, was dismissed from the university for her activities in the striking committee. Eventually, Eva's family was transferred to Němčice. They acted in the local theater and befriended the local clerics that had been persecuted.

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Uherské Hradiště, prison

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During the 1950s, the prison in Uherské Hradiště became the place of suffering for hundreds of people who were either politically opposed to, or simply inconvenient to the newly established communist regime. Arrestees were brought to the prison, which stood adjoining the Regional Court; there they were harassed and interrogated. The prison section of the building has been deserted for several decades.