Video - smuggling goods via Javorník

“I was even smuggling cigarettes. Daddy gave them to me. I was to bring them to somebody in the village, and the Germans caught me. Obviously they took them away from me. Daddy had to go to the customs house to write a protocol, and they sent it to Amtsgericht to Ostrava. And we were summoned to go to Ostrava with Daddy. But, I don’t know whether to thank God or Fate for it, we went to sleep in my grandma’s place. We planned to sleep there and then take a four o’clock train to Ostrava. We missed the train and it left without us. An air raid on Ostrava came that day. They destroyed the Amtsgericht, everything was destroyed and there was nothing left. Thus by not having gone there we saved ourselves.”

• born November 26, 1928 in Nový Hrozenkov (hamlet Orsákovice)
• spent the major part of her childhood in the hamlet of Stodolisko, a settlement located on the border with Slovakia
• during the war she was caught when smuggling cigarettes and was summoned to court in Ostrava
• her father Josef Bartošek served as a messenger in the 1st Czechoslovak partisan brigade of Jan Žižka
• she was guiding future partisans over the border
• September 1944 she was accidentally present in an armed clash between partisans and Germans, which happened to be the most massive one ever in Bohemia-Moravia
• after the war teaching religion till 1954
• at present living in Třemešek near Oskava