We were forced to kill.

"There were cases like this; there was a huge stage facing the machine gun turret. In the morning there was a line up. Some names have been read and then we went to that stage. The order was: ´Take the machine gun and shoot them.´ This happened to me. One Gestapo officer came to me and told me: shoot him. He (the prisoner) was bagging me: ´Shoot me.´ What shall I do? Should I shoot him? Or I will get shot? What a moments! His head fell down before we could negotiate something. That is why I´m sitting here now. If I wouldn’t shoot him he would have shoot me!"

• he was born on September 19th 1926
• his father Josef Bílý Sr. participated in the resistance activity
• they were hiding partisans, runaway captives, but also Vítězslav Lepařík - the commander of the parachute landing with the code name Glucinium
• on March 6th 1945 was Josef Bílý and his mother Anežka arrested by Gestapo
• he was imprisoned in Terezín´s Small Fortress from March until May 5th 1945
• he suffered the spotted fever there
• his father was convicted by the communists to nineteen years of prison, because he refused to enter the JZD
• also his son Josef Bílý Jr. was convicted for the same reason; he spent eight weeks in Lanškroun prison
• presently lives in Lanškroun