A Gestapo man asked if I belonged to the Jews. He wanted to take me with them
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Dominik Paulovič was born on 22 February 1934 in Radošina, Slovakia. His father Josef (1903-1985) worked as a coachman for a local farmer, his mother Helena (1907-1990) also worked in agriculture, and for several years she went to Austria to work for the whole summer. The Paulovičs lived in two rooms with the Jewish Khun family. Dominik had three brothers - Stefan (1931-2022), Jaroslav (1938-1998) and Josef (1944-2022). The family lived very simply, Dominik worked for a local farmer from the age of nine. In 1943, he saw the Gestapo come for the Khuns. He waved to his friends and never saw them again. After the war, the Paulovičs moved to Lower Moravia, where they took over the farm of the displaced Germans, in response to the call to settle the borderlands. The original owners of the house still lived with them for half a year before they had to move out. Dominik finished primary school in 1948 and then helped his parents on the farm. He worked hard and all his life. In 1950 he went with a friend to Kladno, where he used to work as a roller and also worked in the ironworks there until 1955. From 1955 to 1957 he was in Cheb in the army. By that time his parents had lost their farm, which was taken over by the communists and incorporated into the Dolní Morava State Farm. In 1961 he married for the first time and had two daughters, born in 1961 and 1962. In 1973 he married a second time to a Polish girl, Maria, who had come to Bohemia to work. They moved to Hanušovice and had three children in 1973, 1974 and 1981. Dominik then worked in the forests. There he brought in wood with horses or drove a truck until 1987, when he was killed in a car accident. The court then apportioned blame between the two parties involved in the accident, although the witness was not at fault. It attributed this to the culprit’s acquaintance with the judge. In 2023, he lived in Red Water and told the younger generation to appreciate everything.
