Be that as it may, we are at home here
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Hana Dutá, née Pilná, was born on July 31, 1938 in Kamenický Šenov into the family of a glassmaker and clerk. She spent most of her life in her native North Bohemian village. From the period of the Second World War, she still remembers the sound of sirens and escaping to the cellar during air raids. In 1953 she entered the chemical-technological high school in Nový Bor. She graduated a year later and began working as an accountant at Crystalex in Novoborsk. During high school, she met her future husband. In 1956, she married him at the age of 18 and they went to the Romanian town of Banat together. They spent two years in the Czech village of Eibenthal, where her husband taught at a local school. She experienced the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in Kamenický Šenov, where she watched the arrival of tanks. Until her retirement, she worked as an accountant at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov, where she lived while filming the interview (2021).
