When there were wires, a boy burned to death there
Stáhnout obrázek
Robert Adensam was born on 2 March 1937 in Halámky, which was part of the Czech part of Vitoraz region. The village was seized by the German Reich in October 1938. His father, Rupert Adensam, had to enlist in the German army and returned from captivity a year after the war. During the war, the witness went to a German school with other children, but he hardly spoke German. During the wild removal organized by the partisans after the war, people from Halámky were not expelled thanks to his future father-in-law‘s acquaintance with one of the partisans. After the war, he went to school with the son of a woman who came to Halámky with the Red Army, but later had to return to the USSR with her son. He experienced the creation of the border zone and the building of the Iron Curtain, where his friend Eduard Taschner died in 1959. Football and hockey were played at a high level in the village, and the witness was also a keen sportsman. In 1959 he enlisted in the engineer regiment in Terezín. After returning from the war, he worked as a truck driver and became a Border Guard helper together with his father. Since 1972, he was a non-partisan member of the local national committee as a building clerk, but the integration of the municipalities in 1978 meant that all development stopped for the neighbouring municipalities. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, Halámky became independent again and Robert Adensam became involved in municipal politics again before retiring in 1998.
