Jana Havlíková

"It was decided that this area, just the upper villages, which were predominantly German and were actually displaced after the war. Most of the people from there had been displaced because they were German families, and that there was an airfield nearby and that it was such a suitable area, a plateau, kind of an upland.. So they decided to turn it into a training area, so even the people who were then, the Czechs, the new settlers, then had to leave as well, so we also had to leave Holičky, even though there was no training there afterwards. So from my family, my grandfather and grandmother and my aunt and Lizbeth went to Mladá Boleslav or got an offer to Mladá Boleslav. There was a school there and a farm, an agricultural high school, so they went to that farm. And my dad and my mom and actually already with me, we went to the next village, Náhlov, because there were also displaced and people left, so there were empty houses there."

"My dad came there, my dad from Pilsen region as a soldier, because there were horses there. That was horse breeding, there were horses everywhere in those Hartig yards. And my mother worked in that yard. They met there, they fell in love, even though my mom practically didn't speak Czech and my dad was Czech. So they started dating. They applied for marriage and there was just a dispensation, they weren't allowed there of course because my mom was German, my dad was Czech, so those applications weren't allowed, but in the meantime I was born and that was in '47."