The Germans were still there but people already arrived to take their houses
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Erich David was born on 19 October 1939 in Moravský Karlov in the area of Králíky to a Czech-German family of Alfréd David and Anna Davidová. Even though his father was German, he claimed Czech nationality. Witness´s oldest brother Alfréd spent three years in a concentration camp in Dachau. He returned home at the end of the war. The family did not have to be deported after the war but the majority of citizens of Moravský Karlov had to. Although new people arrived, the number of residents was halved. Erich started to study his first year at elementary school in 1946 and because they spoke German at home during the war, he could not speak Czech. His parents were threatened that they were not allowed to speak German at home, otherwise, the children would be taken to re-education. Erich trained to be a carpenter in Bruntál. He spent his military service in Přáslavice near Olomouc. He got married to Ludmila Švarcová in 1961. He and his wife had three children in Červená Voda. The witness spent the Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Červená Voda. He worked in the Tesla company in Červená Voda until his retirement. When he became a widower, he returned to his native house. He lived in Moravský Karlov in 2021.
