Mojmír Jauernig

"And I paid for two press adverts for that run. There were no stove makers at all, the trade just didn't exist, but I didn't know that. I put an ad in the Šumperk Věstník and in Moravský sever. The were newspapers. I put there two ads for 20 crowns each, I didn't even highlight them, because I was saving money. We didn't have a telephone. My wife was working in a kindergarten at that time, because we already had two children, so she couldn't work on the railway. So she worked as a school caretaker. In the advert, the phone number for the kindergarten was listed, but only in the evening. The director and I agreed that I would always go there in the evening and take my calls. So I took orders there. It was nice that the phone only kept me busy for one hour a day. Thanks those two adverts made me a two-year job at the time. I was even afraid of it. I finally quit my job at the railways, and everyone was surprised because the railways had already started making people redundant after the coup and the situation there was tense."

"Also because she was a social democrat and had worked in Moravolen all her life, she had to stay here after the war. It was also because her husband had not returned from the war - he was missing. He survived the whole war and its end. At the end of the war, when [Germany] was divided into the Russian and Anglo-American zones, he wanted to cross the Elbe from the Russian zone to the Western zone, and allegedly the Soviets shot him in the Elbe. So he survived the war, but then he was unlucky - he either drowned or was shot in the water, allegedly."