My eye fell out of my socket

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After the events in February 1948, Boy Scout Leopold Färber, with the nickname Hurvínek, took part in various activities aimed at undermining the authority of the Communist regime. In May 1950 he was arrested and then escorted to the prison in Pilsen. “When you first arrived to Bory, you had to undress completely. We were undressing on one side and the prison clothes were prepared on the other side. We got short pants, the others had long pants, coats... My accomplice, Josef Marek, was standing next to me and said: ‘We ended up in a real shithole, right?!’ We had no idea the warden had been watching us. Then they took us to our cells, solitary cells. And then it all started. The warden came up to me and said: ‘So, have you been beaten here?’ And I said: ‘No, what for?’ And he was just bam, bam, bam, beating me.” The next day, this renowned sadist, officer Václav Brabec, was on duty again. He had asked Leopold Färber once again: “’Have you been beaten here?’ – ‘Well, you beat me, yesterday!’ – ‘Whaaat?!’ He beat me up. After some time he was on duty again, he came into the cell, but I had known better and stayed quiet. He was beating me again, but by accident he touched my glass eye which fell out of my socket and started to roll down the cell.” Leopold Färber got his glass eye after he lost his own eye in an accident. “It was a shock for officer Brabec. He looked at me with dismay, walked out of my cell and he never again dared to touch me.”

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Leopold Färber

Leopold Färber was born in Stará Halič in Slovakia on October 31, 1928. He grew up in Boskovice. His father was a Jew, his mother was a devout Catholic. Their mixed marriage saved them from their deportation to the annihilation camp. As a boy, Leopold, nicknamed Hurvínek, acted as a messenger between the anti-Nazi resistance groups. After 1948 he decided to carry on with the resistance activities. He founded a group with his two brothers Josef and František Marek, who i.a. wanted to damage the Police School with their secretly acquired explosives. However, the explosives blew up by an unlucky coincidence in the Färbers' flat and Leopold lost one of his eyes. The State Security arrested him together with Josef Marek in May 1950. It was shortly after the children from his Scouts' group had distributed leaflets saying 'Death to Communism!' around the neighborhood. Leopold Färber didn't know about that, he only inspired the children by his narrations about the war. The Court sentenced him to sixteen years in jail; he served eight years of his sentence. After that he worked at road constructions for many years, he was finally allowed to arrange shop-windows.

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Plzeň, Bory

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Věznice Bory se nalézá na jižním okraji města Plzeň, poblíž Litické přehrady. Komplex věznice Plzeň-Bory se skládá z ústřední budovy, z níž paprskovitě vybíhají jednotlivá křídla. Výsledný tvar stavby tvoří pravidelný osmihran. Věznice Bory byla v 50. letech 20. století proslulá jako jedna z nejkrutějších věznic s primitivními hygienickými a životními podmínkami. I na samotkách bylo běžně umístěno až pět vězňů. Byla zde uvězněna celá řada známých osobností, například armádní generál Heliodor Píka, který byl na Borech 21. června 1949 popraven. Proběhlo zde tzv. borské povstání, kterého se zúčastnil například bývalý člen Royal Air Force Josef Bryks, který tak ke svému desetiletému trestu z vykonstruovaného procesu z roku 1949 dostal navíc ještě dvacet let trestu za účast na povstání. Povstání bylo pravděpodobně uměle zinscenováno. V pozdějších letech zde byl vězněn například bývalý prezident České republiky Václav Havel. Věznice slouží svému účelu dodnes.