The border with the Reich was established near our house
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Jarmila Celá, née Nečesaná, was born on 23 March 1933 in Hnojice near Šternberk. Her parents, Václav and Marie Celá, had a farm in Hnojice where her father’s parents worked. During the war, her father went to work at the sawmill in Šternberk, he also earned extra money by mending shoes, he was a shoemaker. Mum came to Hnojice to work from Jakubovice, she worked for the farmers. After her marriage she moved to her husband’s house. Mum was a believer, they used to go to church. After the war, father sympathized with the Communist Party, but he did not join it. After completing municipal school, Jarmila became a shop assistant in Hnojice, and later worked in Lužice. She lived through the dramatic liberation of Hnojice in 1945 and the expulsion of the German inhabitants from the area. In 1956 she married Květoslav Celý, who worked for the Jednota company. After the wedding, they moved to live with her husband’s parents in Dolní Žleb, where her husband’s family had come after the war as part of the resettlement of the borderlands. She and her husband raised a son, Jaromír, and a daughter, Květoslava. In 2024, at the time of recording, she was living in a home for the elderly in Šternberk.
