Dagmar Vidímová

“It came by mail, that on this and this date they would be relocated and it told them to prepare, that a truck would arrive. So they could only take stuff from the kitchen and the bedroom. And many things that used to be here. We still have it on paper, all those things they confiscated. Every rope, rake, pitchfork, all the machines, they took our washing machine, sewing machine, radio, we had to leave that here. We used to have such a beautiful dining room. That was a fantastic room, with wood floor and a fireplace we never used.”

“I couldn’t stay there (at work) because the communists wrote this article saying that a daughter of a rich farmer has to go home to the farm and not slack around in an office. So I had to go back home to work at the farm. And the 50s came. My father had all the machines so we were threshing. Somebody reported him that he’s undermining the process, that he wants some of the grain for himself. So in April 1953 they arrested him, he was in Kralupy, and my mother and grandmother received a notice that within a week a car would come and they would be forcibly relocated.”