Kaňovice miracle
Josef Lambor was born on March 3, 1933 in Kaňovice. The family owned a farm in the village with eight hectares of fields and two hectares of forest. At the end of World War II, on April 14, 1945, twelve-year-old Josef witnessed how the Partisans shot a German soldier on guard in the village. The mayor and his family were threatened with execution for this, and the Germans allegedly also toyed with the idea of burning Kaňovice and shooting every fifth citizen. In May 1950, Josef Lambor, like many residents of Kaňovice, helped build a chapel in the village center. However, at a time of anti-church hysteria caused by the communist regime, the building did not have the permission of the authorities and an investigation took place. The local chaplain Mons. ThDr. Antonín Šuránek subsequently ended up in an internment camp and the designer František Peňáz underwent physical and mental abuse in the interrogation room of the prison in Uherské Hradiště. It was not until 1958, under pressure and the threat of eviction of the local chairman of the MNV (the local national committee) and his family, a unified agricultural cooperative (JZD) was established in Kaňovice. Josef Lambor also became a member, who then worked in the collective farm as a tractor driver and zootechnician until his retirement in 1992. In 2021, Josef Lambor still lived in his birth house in Kaňovice.
