The last time she saw her grandfather was during the deportation. He was crying on the truck bed
Stáhnout obrázek
Herta Pokorná, maiden name Pospíšilová, was born on 7th November 1940 in Albrechtice in the Jizera Mountains. She was from a mixed marriage. Her mother, Elly Dressler, was German. The parents of her father, Emil Pospíšil, came to the Jizera Mountains to work at the beginning of the 20th century. Her grandfather Rudolf Dressler served as a medic during World War I and later made a living making and cutting glass. Both uncles on his mother‘s side fought in the Wehrmacht. The younger Rudolf died in Dniepropetrovsk, and the older Hugo ended up in Soviet captivity, from which he returned in the 1950s. After the war, all of the mother‘s relatives had to be deported. Thanks to marrying a Czech, she remained in Czechoslovakia, but for a long time, she was vainly trying to apply for Czechoslovak citizenship. After 1948, the Communists evicted the family from the house and kept it in national administration. The father also lost his carpentry business. After school, Herta Pokorná worked in a porcelain factory in Desná and later lived in Brandýs nad Labem and Kladno, where she worked as a postman. She married twice and had two children from her first marriage. She returned to her native Albrechtice after she was widowed. The story of the witness was recorded thanks to the support of the municipality of Albrechtice in the Jizera Mountains.
