They sneaked us a small saw in a loaf of bread
Antonín Husník was arrested in 1941 because of his attempt to run away with his friends from the Protectorate and join the Czechoslovak foreign troops. First he was interrogated in Brno, then he got to the prison in Strážnice: “We were interrogated by the Gestapo there. Naturally, they slapped us quite a bit and kicked us here and there. But it was bearable. They couldn't believe we weren't members of some kind of an organization.” The security in the prison was not as tight, that is why the prisoners decided to try to escape. One of the prisoners, Sylva Lakosil, could communicate with the outside world and Husník took advantage of this: “I sent my friends, who worked in the Škoda factory, a note asking them to send me a good saw. They put it in a loaf of bread, they called it the ‘English hair.’ It was a thick piece of wire. We started to work with it, but it was too loud. After some time the janitor came along: ‘Lads, you can’t be doing this, sawing the iron bars. Unless you stop that, I’ll put you in solitary cells. So we promised to stop.” However, Husník did not want to give up his valuable saw. He hid it in his mouth and he later managed to smuggle it all the way to Germany. With the saw he cut out a cross from an old scrubbing brush and he wore it on his neck as a good luck charm. Nowadays, the cross is placed in the museum of resistance fighters in Prague.
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