Julius Fučík, a journalist and member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a committed anti-fascist and prominent activist in the Resistance Movement, was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1942. While in the Pankrác prison, he wrote the most famous anti-fascist manifesto in the world—“Report from a Noose” (Reportáž s provazem). 167 sheets of cigarette paper were smuggled out by two sympathetic jail wardens who supported the writer. On September 8, 1943, Julius Fučík was executed.