Dad called: Look, Český Malín is on fire!
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Marie Říhová was born on 6 January 1938 in the village of Bryshchi in Volhynia. Her grandmother came to Ukraine from Mladá Boleslav to work. They were given land at that time, which gave them a living. Her father Bohuslav Kunc was conscripted into the Red Army during World War II and later fell into captivity. Eventually, as a soldier of the 1st Čs. Army Corps, he took part in the Carpathian-Dukla operation and the fighting in Slovakia. In 1943, the witness had seen the burning out of Český Malín. After the war, the family applied for repatriation - they waited two years for permission from the Russian government. In 1947, they came to Czechoslovakia and settled in Teplá in the Karlovy Vary region, where they acquired a small farm. In the 1950s, however, they lost it. They were prescribed such high contingents that they preferred to hand over the farm to the State Farm. The witness graduated from the pedagogical school and worked all her life as a first-grade teacher. In 2022 she lived in Teplá.
