"Everybody knew that by being accepted to the [teacher training] school, we had settled the religious question. But every year we went to Hostýn, we respected what we could. But what we never did - neither in Hulín nor here in Holešov - was to go to families who sent their children to religion. Because there was always an order from higher circles that we had to go around at the beginning of the year to the families who sent their children to religion. But there were a few of us who said that the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and we would not go against the Constitution. So we never went anywhere. They then took away our personal bonuses or removed us from our class teacher positions, and that’s how they punished us. But there was nothing we could do about it, and six months later they [gave it back] again, and this was repeated year after year."
"He just had a little scarf and he had a few things in it. He had it tied up like you see in the fairy tales, like you see Honza in the fairy tales, and he carried a knot like that, and the others too." - "How old was Stephen? Was he your brother's peer?" - "Yes, he was a peer, he was about ten years old when..." - "When they left..." - "When they left for the transport. They were amazingly hardworking, modest, decent, and yet they were so involved in the life of Mysločovice that everyone took them as equal partners. Nobody judged them for anything." - "And they lived in a regular house?" - "No, they lived in a caravan, they had a caravan."
"All of a sudden, all of us kids had to go into that bottom bunk bed. We were never allowed in the bottom bunk because it was for adults. We always had to climb on top. They threw a blanket over us so it was completely dark. They didn't even give us a flashlight. And they said, 'Be quiet and now listen, you'll see what happens.' And Zdenek Zaoral was born there. Now we suddenly heard a baby crying. We didn't understand where the baby came from. The bigger ones understood, but we as children didn't."
Ludmila Sadilová, maiden name Mrlíková, was born on 12 February 1937 in Mysločovice in the Zlín region. She was born into a devout Catholic family of Antonín Mrlík, a carpenter and sokol member, and Ludmila, née Dřímalová, who worked as a tutor in the family of a Brno university teacher. She grew up together with her older brother Antonín and younger sister Marie, who died in infancy. A year later, her parents had another daughter, whom they also named Marie. In Mysločovice they lived in a house where her father had a workshop and together with her mother they ran a funeral service. After the war, my mother worked as a janitor and also in a unified agricultural cooperative (JZD). They spent the last days of the war until the liberation together with several families from the neighbourhood in the cellar of their house. She graduated from the primary school in Mysločovice and went on to the grammar school and later to the eleven-year school in Otrokovice. Her father‘s brother was affected by collectivisation and her father himself lost the opportunity to run his own business - he went under the communal funeral service and later worked for the JZD in Mysločovice. For two years, the witness studied at a higher pedagogical school in Brno and in 1957 she started teaching mathematics and physics in Šumperk. For many years she taught in Hulín and Holešov. She also worked as a district physics methodologist and taught in a mathematics class. She and her husband Stanislav Sadil - also a teacher - raised two daughters. The middle son Stanislav unfortunately died as a result of vaccination with the wrong batch of vaccine. After his death in 1971, they moved to Všetuly (part of Holešov), to a villa they built with their own help. Between 1986 and 2020, she and her husband took care of the forgotten stone cross in Všetuly. She taught until 1991, then helped out at the primary schools in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, Mysločovice and Holešov. In 2024 she lived in Holešov.
Mysločovice children in front of the removed bells of the Holy Trinity Church (for war purposes), the witness is in the first row on the right, above her brother Antonín and on his left a Romany boy Štěpán (with a cap), 25 March 1942
Mysločovice children in front of the removed bells of the Holy Trinity Church (for war purposes), the witness is in the first row on the right, above her brother Antonín and on his left a Romany boy Štěpán (with a cap), 25 March 1942
Ludmila Sadilová (in a dark dress without cleavage in the front row in the middle) with her colleagues - graduated teachers. Graduation in Brno, 29 June 1957
Ludmila Sadilová (in a dark dress without cleavage in the front row in the middle) with her colleagues - graduated teachers. Graduation in Brno, 29 June 1957
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