František Bauer

"In the morning you had to light a fire, heat the water in the copper boiler, that was about for two hours. The water had to be boiled, the tubs had to be prepared, everything around it. At dawn father always said, that we have to go begin early, so that we would not have to keep doing it until nighttime. At around seven or eight thirty the pig was stunned and steamed. The stew was sometime around ten or eleven o'clock. The stew got finished. The meat got ground up, was prepared and put into sausages. Around one or two o'clock the sausages started to be cooked and sometime around five o'clock everything was finished, everyone sat down for coffee and to talk after the pig slaughter. With the neighbors maybe some beer, maybe some liquor."

"After the year 1948 they took father's business license and he went to mandatory military service. He had to go to the Black Barons, because he was uncomfortable to the regime. I did not like it, when they liquidated his license. He was an anti-state element and for that he got the reward of the Black Barons. After his service he moved with his brother to Nejdek and from Nejdek he rode to Otovice, where there was a pub and a butcher's shop. Father got an offer from the local co-operative there to run the pub and shop. Mother lived directly in front of the shop in a small house and that was how they got to know each other."