They were not even allowed to give them water
Jaroslav Rainer was born on September 26, 1940 in Vchynice near Lovosice into a mixed Czech-German family. During the war, Vchynice became a part of the Sudetenland and Jaroslav‘s father had to enlist in the Wehrmacht. At the end of the war, death marches heading to the nearby Terezín were passing by Rainer‘s house. After the war, his father was removed from the deportation thanks to the mayor‘s intercession, but he could no longer carry out his trade as a butcher. Jaroslav trained as a blacksmith and in 1959 he joined the military service, which was extended during the Cuban crisis in 1961. He worked in a chemical plant and played and trained football in Velemín all his life.