They offered me collaboration
“They arrested me on 26th May 1953. Then they took me for an interrogation to the interrogation room in Bartolomějská. My clothes were hanging on the coat-stand and the clerk tells me: ‘Can you go and look outside the window?’ In Konviktská street a lady was pushing a pram with a child which was about the same age as my son. It may have taken about half an hour. The clerk told me: ‘If you sign up for collaboration, we’ll let you go home. Here are your clothes.’ That was one of the worst moments in my life. All kinds of things go on onside you. I am a religious person and at that moment of helplessness I started to pray: ‘Dear Lord, please, help me.’ I had the feeling as if god was standing next to me. Suddenly it was obvious, I simply couldn’t sign up.”
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Miluška Havlůjová, roz. Pomplová
Miluška Havlůjová was born on May 13, 1929 in Dušníky near Prague. Her parents, Jaroslav and Emilie Pompl, were actively participating in the antinazi resistant movement during World War II in the Rožmitál area. After the communist putsch in February 1948 a Pompl's family sawmill in Voltuše was confiscated and the father imprisoned for one year. Miluška Havlůjová tried to clear his name, but in May 1953 she was arrested as well. She was sentenced for 5 years for attempting incitement against the State and spying, in spite of heaving 18 months old son (her father was sentenced for 10 years simultaneously). After two years, Havlůjová was released because of the so called action ‘M', when the president of Czechoslovakia, Antonín Zápotocký, granted a pardon to woman with small children. Immediately after she returned home, Havlůjová broke her leg because of an inflammation of her bone marrow, the result of an infection whle in prison. She had seven months of long and complicated treatments and then started to work as an accountant. After the velvet revolution in 1989 she engaged in politics and become a member of the OF. In the years 1992-1998 she served as a mayor of Rudná. The relationship with her son has never healed completely.
