Ing. Jan Jarolím

"Dad experienced it during the crisis, when he was threatened, today we would say insolvency, but then basically the bankruptcy of the company and the loss of property and everything he actually built. So he sometimes described the martyrdom, saying that he visited his creditors and contractors, who supplied his construction company, and asked them for help and to either discount it or at least postpone the payment of those invoices. And the people, the tougher ones, gave him a reprieve and just waited, even if they had problems themselves. Someone discounted him, and Dad really got out of the crisis and saved the company, finished orders, paid for everything he had, and said, and achieved a clean slate. Then the war broke out and this actually gave him the pre-war clean-up and rescue of at least part of the property, so it allowed him to actually close the construction company. Because he didn't want to produce anything for the Germans."