Olga Musilová

“I remember the year 1948 as well. Well, in the morning, I was sitting with certain Jarda Rejlek, he was a communist, and in the morning on that day we were normally arguing, but in jest, and each of us was defending their views. But then the siren sounded and they started, they started with arrests the very same day, and they arrested several people, and it was at the time when I was still working at that factory. Well, in the afternoon I would not have dared to argue with him anymore.”

“Then there was 1938. And since we were located right on the state border, all the other villages or railway stations behind us were already part of Germany… There was already Libau, in Germany. I was a ten-year-old girl at that time, but I remember that daddy… It was in May, in May 1938 and dad came home at night and he said that the situation was simply serious and that the Sudeten people, the Ordners, were up to something there and we thus left on the first train in the morning. We had a place to go to, we went here to my grandma’s.”