For Silvester Krcmery, each morning began with what he called an “inventory check.”
Krcmery, a doctor who described his prison cell as so small he could not sit, recalls waking up in the bitterly cold atmosphere.
“Do I still have my nose? Because it was as cold as a frozen stone. So I check: all right, I still have my nose,” he recalls in a clip from the new docuseries, “Live Not by Lies.”
“Then the right ear—I have it. Then the left ear—I have it. Because I couldn’t feel them at all. Nor did I feel some of my fingers sometimes. And so on.”
Krcmery, a devout Catholic living in what was then Czechoslovakia, was arrested in 1951. “In 1954, the young Christian doctor told the Communist judges, who were about to sentence him for high treason: ‘You have power in your hands, but we have truth!’” writes Rod Dreher, the author of “Live Not By…
