I was standing on one side, they were on the other one and we were talking across the barrier
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Margita Beranová, née Klarová, was born on 26th April, 1930 in Chomutov as the only child in a mixed marriage of a Czech man and a German woman. Her daddy worked as a head of train in railways and mum was at home making money linen bleaching. The first three years little Margita attended a Czech school in Chomutov, and other grades were German. After war she did a one-year course and apprenticed a shop assistant. She worked in a stationary shop, in a shopping centre and later as a civic employee at an army airport near Žatec, where she met her first husband, a pilot, who she followed to Prešov and later to Bechyně. He died at an aircraft accident and she returned to Chomutov. During work in a forest she met her second husband and raised two sons of her first marriage.