Savings bank clerk Antonín Axamit was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason just before his wedding to Miluše Axamitová, (then Hesová). He was arrested for helping three university students cross the state border, in their attempt to flee the country. He was imprisoned in …
Štěpán Vašíček, a former electro technician, was arrested in 1950 and spent time in countless number of prisons throughout ten years for allegedly aiding in espionage. In the Vojna camp near Svatá Hora, Vašíček witnessed a Holy Mass. The masses were secretly served by priests of the Redemptorist …
Through his uncle Václav Čermák, František Teplý became involved in the activities of an illegal resistance organization formed by the Christian-democratic party. In 1954, he was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in the labor camp Vojna for his involvement in the organization. In May 1960, he wa…
In Winter 1956 František Zahrádka was, within his twenty year punishment for treason and espionage, transferred to the labour camp Vojna in the region of Příbramsko. He worked there as a breaker in a uranium mine. After he came to the camp he immediately got a forty-day punishment of correction f…