Tomorrow Your Darling Is About to Hang

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In 1948 Eva Dušková´s fiancé, Miloslav Choc, was convicted for alleged murder of the StB Major Augustin Schramm. At that time a sixteen-year-old Eva who knew about the hidden parachutes and her mother Ludmila, who gave a shelter to Choc, were subsequently judged together with other people in the series of processes of the so-called “chociáda.” The last time Eva saw her beloved was the night before his execution in Pankrác prison. “They took me to the death cell. There were two boxes looking like coffins. Míla could have a three-hour visit, but in an hour the wardens got an order and took me away. I do not even know how I got back to my cell. You know, to see a healthy man, full of life that has to die, it is horrible,” she recalled. Choc was executed on February 19, 1949. Eva was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and her mother to fifteen years.

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Eva Dušková, born Vokálová

Eva Dušková, born Vokálová, was born on the 11th of November 1931 in Prague, into the family of the builder and architect František Vokál, (died 1943). After the war his wife Ludmila rented out the basement of their villa to technical students from out of Prague. Through them, Eva became acquainted with Miloslav Choc, a student and functionary of the national socialists. Miloslav Choc crossed the borders in the spring of 1948, with the intention of emigrating, but he later decided to join the resistance and he returned entrusted with several missions. After the May murder of Augustin Schramm, an important functionary of the partisan movement and Security Major, Choc was the one accused, arrested in Olomouc on the 2nd of June. Shortly before his arrest, State Security also arrested his girlfriend's family. Choc was sentenced to death and executed on the 11th of February 1949. Eva and Ludmila Vokálová ended up in prison, (Eva spent five years in juvenile detention centres in Hradec Králové, Kostelec nad Orlicí - based in Doudleby - in the juvenile girls' detention centre in Lnáře and the centre in Zámrsk). Her mother was not released from prison until 1960, dying soon after from the effects of the long imprisonment and slave-like working conditions.

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Pankrác

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During the First Czechoslovak Republic they executed people here on the gallows. The number of the casualties cannot be even compared with the period of Nazi occupation. Between 1943 and 1945 they executed over a thousand of people, including women, by guillotine in the so-called “axe room.” After the war there were public executions of Nazi criminals and collaborators. The executions continued during the communist period and since 1954, Pankrác prison was the only place of executions in Czechoslovakia. The last death penalty was executed in February 1989. The total number of the executed was 1580.