Ing. Marie Šlechtová

"He found himself in the border area at the end of 1945, because the citizens of the Příbram district, which also included the village of Běřín, where he lived, were to settle in the border area, specifically the area of Klášterec nad Ohří in northern Bohemia. There were more people from Běřín, they knew each other. My grandfather, mother and her sister were given a house to live in. The house had a field, a barn, and a stable. They had several cattle, calves, my mother used to graze them. When there were seasonal jobs like harvesting grain, harvesting potatoes or planting in the spring, grandpa had to hire workers. Mom brought them food, snacks, and drinks to the fields and was there for them. So, she couldn't go to school. According to my mother's memories, my grandfather even paid the fine for her not going to school."

"Whenever something on the farm did not go as the members of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic on the farm imagined, the management of the farm would threaten: 'Wait, we will discuss it in the party and see what we will do with you!' Figuratively, they did not beat us, but it was such a threat from the members of the Communist party. In short, the Communist party of Czechoslovakia did not interest me."