Human being – the first words I recalled
Bratrství was the second Jáchymov camp, after camp Vykmanov, where Jan Haluza had ended up. There he experienced a week of cruel interrogations without anything to eat or drink. The interrogators never succeeded in making him confess to espionage, but he did become infected with typhus. “When the escort guy was dragging me to the interrogation of the Jáchymov espionage, along a corridor in hotel Prague, I suddenly saw a water pipe there and because I was very thirsty, I immediately flung myself to it. He pulled out a gun and warned to shoot me, he told me to get away from the water pipe, that it was a typhus water pipe. He wanted to shoot me down but I already had a drink. When I got to the camp, the typhus started to take effect,” he recalled. Haluza was taken to hospital in Karlovy Vary where he was delirious for 22 days; he seemed to be dying. Despite the illness, he had chains a meter long on his legs; on one leg, they were securely attached, on the other leg, there was a lock which could be opened and the prisoner was then bound to his bed for the night. “Suddenly, after those twenty two days, I opened my eyes, I was looking around myself and for two or three days I was shouting out hu-, hu-, hu-. I had lost my memory and everyone thought I was crazy. But on the third day I shouted out the words ‘human being’. It was because I could see people around me, fellow prisoners, and the first words I truly recalled were human being, for I had human beings next to me," Haluza remembered.
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