Svatopluk Havrlík

"By the evening it was normal. There was a brass band of students in the monastery. They used to come to Bohosudov and Krupka to play. First of all, it was a monastery 'advertisement', secondly, if there was a festival or some program where they wanted music, they went there to play. At that time they were playing at a meeting. They were going back to the monastery, and no sooner had the door of the monastery closed than it opened again and a large number of soldiers, policemen, militia, a kind of shock troops, rushed in. They immediately occupied the monastery, they concentrated the priests in a room, and we were herded into rooms. Everyone was given a paper bag to take the things they had in it. In the morning they put us on a bus and took us to Děčín."

"The worst thing was going to confession. Because, to put it in human terms, how can you sin when you're eleven and in a convent... I couldn't say that I stole sugar, because I stole sugar at home. Everybody stole it at home. But again, there was a difference between the confessors. Because he was Father Pitrul, he was such an evil man. If you committed the slightest sin, you had to pray the whole rosary. I don't know if you can pray it, but it's time! Every marble a prayer. And when I went to confession to the father who taught us physics, he said he did it too and that I should go play football. But I was supposed to stop by the chapel and get crucified, then go play football. So I went to physics and played football with gusto."