war in Kupičov
(audio)… and gave us bewildering looks. They started to set up the JZD (collective farming – note by the translator) and other … took machines from people because they needed them for the JZD, for the “kolkhoz”, so they just stole it from us. They …
The father's arrest
(audio)… wanted to establish a Unified Agricultural Cooperative (JZD) in Dlažkovice. My father did not want to get into the JZD, and they imprisoned him for that. Exactly on Christmas …
The eviction of the blind uncle and grandmother to an institution and the establishment of a unified agricultural cooperative
(video)… in an institution. This freed up our homestead and the JZD (unified agricultural cooperative) was founded out of … into offices, where the economist and the chairman of the JZD were. They turned the “výměnek” (a cottage reserved for …
Land confiscated by the Unified Agricultural Cooperative
(audio)… to us. They were threatening us, forcing us to join the JZD, yelling at us that they would destroy us and stomp us … because there were actually three of them who joined the JZD and became members and thus they made it possible for …
Most of the informers were local people
(audio)… son-in-law of Ladislav Stypa, who was the chairman of the JZD. That's a big story. Because when my father joined the … than me. It was arranged with the old chairman of the JZD, Duda, that he would join and I would go there too. I … in my brother's stead for the time until he joined the JZD. Well, yes, but in the meantime the chairmen changed. A …
In the 1950s no one sat on benches in front of houses, no one talked to anyone anymore
(audio)… after work they would meet, discuss, sit. Then, when the JZD (Unified agriculture cooperative) was established, the …