Anna Feigl

* 1938

  • "I know my mother took the blankets and had some more fabric to have a suit made. But we'd heard that they were taking everything. So she made trousers out of the fabric, just cut it off and sewed it up to look like trousers- so they wouldn't take the fabric from us."

  • "He said there were Slovaks there - it was inhabited. But they hadn't been in the house for a long time, only when we arrived it was inhabited, so we couldn't go there. Then my mother went to the miller because he was the caretaker of the house, that she needed things - we didn't have a sewing machine and other things. He said he would lend it to us and when we had to leave we were to hand it back. But when we left in 1948, my mother went to the committee and asked if we had to give it back to him. The committee asked if he had bought it. 'He didn't buy it.' 'Then you don't have to give it back.' But that was in 1948, that was better."

  • "They were dressed strangely, they had long black coats, lots of buttons. I was six years old at the time, everything was interesting to me. They had hats on their heads and they brought a gamekeeper from Bučnice. They took our father, the pub keeper and the miller to take pickaxes and shovels and go to the forest on Buchberg [Beech Mountain], that they should look for hidden weapons. They searched everywhere, they found nothing, they were beaten a lot. In the end they had to dig a grave for themselves. They were already standing in front of the grave and they were counting on being shot if they didn't tell where the weapons were. But a big man came, so my dad told me, and said, "Don't shoot!" so they could go home again. But they took the gamekeeper with them, he was badly beaten and his ribs were broken, and they took him away again - he was arrested."

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    Bad Kissingen, 13.07.2025

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She was hiding under the covers when a Soviet soldier burst into the house with a handgun

Anna Feigl between 1945 and 1948
Anna Feigl between 1945 and 1948
zdroj: Witness´s archive

Anna Feigl, née Müller, was born on 1 January 1938 in Broumov. She had an older sister and an older brother from her father‘s previous marriages. Her parents farmed in Bučnice near Teplice nad Metují. The whole family was of German nationality. In 1944 she started to attend the German school in Teplice nad Metují. In the spring of 1945, „national guests“ fleeing from the eastern regions stayed with them. In June 1945, a group of Czechs forced my father and other German neighbours to look for weapons in the woods and dig their own graves; they were beaten but not shot. In the spring of 1946, the whole family had to go to the camp in Meziměstí and awaited deportation. Eventually they returned to Bučnice, but their house was already occupied. The witness entered the Czech school in Teplice nad Metují. In 1948 they were evicted to the village of Háj in the Podkrušnohoří region. She went to the town school in Vejprty, her father and brother were building roads for the Jáchymov mines. In 1956 she got married and had two daughters. She worked in the electrical equipment factory in Kovářská. In 1967 they moved to Germany, settled in Ingolstadt, where their son was born. She cleaned in a private doctor‘s office for 30 years. In 2025, she was living in Ingolstadt.