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In prison, women faced humiliation and inadequate health care. After their release, they continued to be monitored by the secret police and had difficulty finding work. It was important to inform foreign media and human rights organizations about the trials, prison conditions, and the humiliating treatment of detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bo\u017eena Ho\u0161t\u00e1kov\u00e1 spent five months in a men’s prison in Ilava in 1969 as a 19-year-old student for writing slogans against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. „The cell was like something from the 1950s, when they interrogated people. I only had cold and darkness in there. They let me out for a mere hour. When I came out of the darkness into the light, tears streamed from my eyes<\/em>.” In 1983, Zofia Romaszewska wrote an open letter to the communist government from prison, describing the reality: \u201eYou receive your food through the bars, through an opening… if you want to torment a prisoner, you order him to strip naked.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krystyna Stachowiak: „They took me to the police headquarters in a large police van. There, they forced me to strip naked. I had to do squats and stick my butt out so they could check if I was hiding anything. They humiliated me, treating me like a thief or a criminal.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Em\u00edlia Pastvov\u00e1: „The whole thing was humiliating. They thought I was Roma and treated me accordingly. Since then, I understand Roma people. During a gynecological examination, without even examining me, the doctor announced that I had syphilis. After the examination, he did not apologize. Some guards enjoyed provoking female prisoners, and when an incident occurred, they found it amusing. At night, they teased the dogs to make them bark and thus making the prisoners’ sleep more „pleasant.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Em\u00edlia Pastvov\u00e1, n\u00e9e Kesegov\u00e1, also organized vacation stays as part of the underground church. Even this activity became a subject of interest for the secret police. Kesegov\u00e1 was arrested in 1980 and spent two and a half months in custody. The court proceedings lasted three years, during which she lost her job and developed health problems. She was sentenced to four months under the Section on obstructing state supervision of a church or religious association. Source: Private archive of E. Pastvov\u00e1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zofia Romaszewska and her husband worked with the Workers’ Defense Committee (KOR), coordinated aid for the persecuted ones, and co-organized Radio Solidarity. She was arrested in 1982. In the photo, taken during the trial concerning the registration of Solidarity on April 17, 1989, in Warsaw, Zofia and Zbigniew Romaszewski are in the center. Source: Archive of O\u015brodek KARTA, photo by Mieczys\u0142aw Michalak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On 13 December 13, 1981, a state of emergency was declared in Poland, and thousands of people associated with Solidarity were taken into custody. Arrests took place at their homes in the middle of the night, without the possibility of saying goodbye to their family or receiving information about where they were being taken and what would happen to them. Fifty transports brought a total of 392 women to the largest internment facility for women in the town of Go\u0142dap.\u00a0\u00a0 Source: Internowani.pl association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Investigation file of Bo\u017eena Ho\u0161\u0165\u00e1kov\u00e1, Source: Nation’s Memory Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In prison, women faced humiliation and inadequate health care. After their release, they continued to be monitored by the secret police and had difficulty finding work. It was important to inform foreign media and human rights organizations about the trials, prison conditions, and the humiliating treatment of detainees. Bo\u017eena Ho\u0161t\u00e1kov\u00e1 spent five months in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":12702,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12655","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nDaily Courage. 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