Everything has its place
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Anna Rajmova was born on 9 February 1936 in the village of Rajhorodok in the eastern Volhynia region of Zhytomyr, Ukraine. This territory belonged to the Soviet Union at that time. Anna‘s mother came from Poland, her father František Mužík had Czech parents. Six siblings grew up together in a house that their parents built with their own help in Rajhorodok. During the World War II, the family experienced various hardships - the sending of their daughter Bronislava to forced labour in Germany, the establishment of an infirmary for Nazi soldiers in their own house, and air raids on the village surroundings. She did not know about her father‘s Czech origin until she was ten years old. He revealed it to his children only when it was clear that the family would move back to Bohemia. They came to Dlouhý Újezd in the Tachov region in the second re-migration wave in the spring of 1947, when the witness was 11 years old. The family acquired a house here for use after the Germans had been expelled. Like many other Volhynian Czechs, the Mužík family was to settle the abandoned border area. In the Tachov region, the witness finished her schooling and became a hairdresser. She remained faithful to the town of Tachov in her future personal life. There she met her husband Jaroslav Rajm, also a Volhynian Czech, with whom she raised their daughter Květa and son Vladimír. Her daughter has already organized several joint meetings of Volhynian Czechs in the Tachov region.
