“He came home and he didn’t want to talk about at all. I thought that he would jump out of the window.”
First encounter with Russian soldiers
“They came, two Russian soldiers. One of them was alright and the other was drunk. They came to the cellar where we were, my mother and us three young women. I was really scared. And Franta, my husband, he was just sitting there. He was a real wreck. I could not ask him for any support. He had a watch on his hand. The drunk one wanted one of us or my mother. The other soldier just asked for the watch. So Franta gave him the watch and he dragged the drunk one away. So we were saved. That was my first encounter with the Russians.”
- born as Večeřová on 28th July 1924 in Svébohov
- supposed to work as forced labor
- married to František Grunt
- her husband took part in the resistance against the Nazis
- 19th April 1944, arrested and imprisoned in Theresienstadt, Breslau and Dresden
- after the great bombing of Dresden he managed to escape.
- after the war they moved to Malá Morava
- ran a small shop and after 1948 they were forced to join a collective company
- in 1960s they moved to Mohelnice where she lives until today
- her husband died of tuberculosis he suffered since Theresienstadt