“When they were blowing-up our house up in the air in Rychnov, they were guarding the neighbouring roads. Mrs. Boukalová, the neighbour, was sitting right at the window with her grandson, at the side of our house. And they told her nothing, gave no warning. A stone flew in her window and landed on her table. Imagine anything could happened to her or the child.“
“In Verneřice we lived shortly, but quite a lot of people came there. We had a large loft there, where we played theatre. Once I was interrogated and the policeman asked me: ‚So tell me, that´s weird, how come that the house of culture is completely empty and fifty people is rehearsing a theatre play at the Princes?‘ So I replied: ‚You need to answer that for yourself.‘ Opposite to us lived and had a private practice a Jew, Hugo Engelhart, a political prisoner during the Nazis and communists too. He was telling us what the secret police is doing against us: ‚They are wiring you.´ He knew everything.“
“Čuňas went up there to have a look and found out there were bomb everywhere. Tear gas all over, as it is based on a fat substance so it drains slowly, so everything was fatty – children cubes, books. We were washing everything. Dalibor was used to ride his tricycle around the kitchen and he was crying all the time. We could never get it out of the wood properly. In spring we went there together with Dáša Vokatá and scrubbed it properly again. For a couple of last moths we came back to the house.”
Květoslava Princová, née Veselá, was born in 1950 in Lipník nad Bečvou. She studied the High School of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, the field of macro molecular chemistry. In 1970s she me the underground folks in the flat of family Němec. In 1976 together with her husband Jan Princ they bought a house in Rychnov, around which a large community of people from Prague and northern Czech underground gathered, students and youth from Ústí nad Labem, Děčín and Česká Lípa. They organised lectures, concerts, exhibitions and their house also served as an open house for people persecuted by the communist regime. Following a heavy pressure on part of secret police and several brutal attacks the communists expropriated their house without any compensation and blew it up. A similar scenario happened with other hoses of the Princ family - a parish in Robeč and a farmhouse in Mastířovice. In 1986 se Květa and Jan Princ moved out to Nenakonice (part of a village Věrovany) near Olomouc, and have been living there until today. After the velvet revolution the witness participated in the Civic Forum activities, studied the Humanities College, let an office of the Olomouc mayor, worked in charity and co-founded the department of social and humanitarian work. Today she works as a specialised assistant at the Department of Christian Social Work at Palacky University in Olomouc.
