Cousin and cousin hiding in fear under the covers
Marie Bařinová was born on 22 November 1934 in Budišovice near Opava, but she and her family lived in Dobrá near today’s Frýdek-Místek. During her childhood, she and her parents often went to visit relatives in Morávka, to the settlement of Zajičorka in the foothills of the Beskydy Mountains. During the Second World War, the people there supported the partisans. In January 1945, Nazi gunmen raided the settlement of Zajičorka, gathering all the men in the cottage of their godfather, Alois Muron, who, like several other neighbours, never returned home. The witness experienced the crossing of the front at the end of the Second World War. Then she entered the grammar school in Frýdek-Místek, and after some time she transferred to the pedagogical grammar school in Ostrava. After that she continued her studies at the Faculty of Education in Olomouc. She took a placement at the grammar school in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, where she taught mathematics until her retirement.