Let everyone live their life their own way

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Jiří Krátoška was born on 2 February 1930 in Pacov. He experienced the war in his home town, he remembers his Jewish neighbours and Jewish school friends, who were deported to concentration camps and never came back. At the end of World War II he witnessed the razing of the nearby village of Leskovice by German soldiers. In 1945 and 1946 he worked as a bricklayer; among other places, he helped build dams for the ponds around Pacov - German POWs from the camp near Pacov also worked on the construction. The witness learnt porcelain decorating at the porcelain factory in Karlovy Vary, but he abandoned the craft some time after the February Coup of 1948 and worked as a stage hand at theatres in Karlovy Vary and Pardubice until his retirement.