Otilie Týmalová

* 1934

  • "They showed films in the hall, but no films arrived to be shown. There were some soldiers at the station; I don't even know if they were Germans, but apparently so. They came to my grandmother and said, since no films are to be shown, she must immediately allow them to move into the hall. They moved in, and in the morning, I guess some moron was cleaning his gun and suddenly shot the ceiling. Since my grandma kept the inn, she also had a farm, and there was hay stacked there, and it just... the whole hall burned down at the end of the war..."

  • "Some Germans lived downstairs, and the husband of one of them was an SS man. When we had some of those... they tried to help us a little bit when they were there with us... When someone came and robbed everything in our place, they said, what have you got a screwdriver for, or a hammer. They took it all away from us and then told my mother to go and get it at the police station. We were just looking at their house from the classroom and when my mother went in there they just gave her a case that was in her name, and it was empty and we didn't have a screwdriver or anything..."

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    České Budějovice, 16.12.2022

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    délka: 01:00:36
    nahrávka pořízena v rámci projektu The Stories of Our Neigbours
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    České Budějovice, 24.05.2024

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    délka: 01:24:57
    nahrávka pořízena v rámci projektu The Stories of Our Neigbours
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We agreed to look unhappy

Otilie Týmalová in 1954
Otilie Týmalová in 1954
zdroj: Witness's archive

Otilie Týmalová was born on 24 September 1934 in Borovany, but she and her family, father Alois Fuchs and mother Otílie Fuchsová, lived in České Budějovice. They went to Borovany very often and helped their grandparents in the Sýmalka inn. It was here that the witness got a lifelong affection for Sokol; her grandfather was a member of the Czechoslovak Church of the Brethren and one of the Sokol founders in České Budějovice. Father Alois Fuchs was in the regime‘s sights after 1948 and the family had to move to Jindřichův Hradec. Otilie Týmalová started flying gliders there, and in the 1950s she switched to tobogganing, eventually competing in the national championships. After the revolution in 1989, she returned to Sokol and actively participated in its renewal. She was the chief of the Sokol from 1995 to 2000; she also worked as the secretary of the South Bohemian district of the Sokol. She received the gold Sokol Medal in 2016. After completing high school, she worked in the accounting department of the South Bohemian Power Plants all her life, and in 2024 she lived in České Budějovice.