I belong here. My great-grandfather, grandfather and then my mom lived here
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Annelies Schölerová was born on 21 August 1943 in Liberec. Her mom had a Czech-German origin, her father was a German-speaking farmer Ernst (Arnošt) Prade. The family lived in the village of Horní Vítkov near Chrastava which became part of the Third Reich due to the Munich Agreement. Witness´s father had to at first supply the German army and later he joined it and died on the Eastern Front. Witness´s mother had to move out of Horní Vítkov after the war. She took refuge at house of her parents in the nearby village of Horní Sedlo near Hrádek nad Nisou where Annelies spent a wonderful childhood. Her Czech grandmother had her enrolled as Anežka for school so that she protected her against problems connected to her German origin. She worked in the STAP textile factory in Hradec since she was fourteen, later she graduated from a business school and gained a job in another factory in Hradec called Vulkan. After the Velvet Revolution, she received restitution compensation for property confiscated from her family. In 2021 she lived in Horní Sedlo.
