The person who has not been born on a farmstead has nothing to do there!
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Jaroslav Mahel was born in March 1948 in a farmer’s family in the Svratka region. Communists allegedly set their family farm on fire as a response to Jaroslav’s father’s reluctance to join the Unified Agricultural Cooperative. Jaroslav’s father was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for endangering the unified agricultural plan, to loss of property and to lifelong prohibition of residence in the Žďár district. The family was suffering from various kind of persecution from then on. The hardship took its toll on Jaroslav’s father’s health and he died at a relatively young age in the second half of the 1960s. Jaroslav still feels wronged because although he knows the identity of the arsonists, he has never been able to get justice. Jaroslav Mahel and his brothers claimed their family farm in the restitution process after 1989 and they started with agricultural production again. In 2010 his son Jaroslav took over the management of the farm, and the family tradition at the farm ‘Na lánech’ has thus been preserved.
