The whole German family had to dig holes and bury them where the playground is today
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Václav Tvrdý was born on 10 July 1953 in Vroutek, Lounsko. His mother, Eleonora Tvrdá, née Klímová, came from a mixed Czech-German family in Vroutek. After the war, part of the family was deported to Germany. His father, Václav Tvrdý, was born in Pšov near Žlutice and also came from a mixed family. He came to Vroutek to work as a quarry worker. During the war, he had to enlist in the German army, from which he eventually deserted to the USA. After returning to Czechoslovakia, he had to join the Czechoslovak army or risk imprisonment. Eleonora Tvrdá was forced to work in Louny during the war. After her return, she witnessed the tragedies of the deportation of the German inhabitants of Vroutek. Václav Tvrdý himself had German nationality on his birth certificate and ID card. He finished primary school in Vroutek. Later, he was apprenticed in Louny and worked as a bricklayer at Military Constructions. Soldiers of the Soviet garrison of the Doupov military area knocked him off his motorcycle with a truck. He never received compensation for the injuries he sustained. He worked as a bricklayer until the Revolution, earning extra money in the summer by working on a combine harvester. In the 1960s, he visited his uncle in Germany. In the seventies he got married, his wife Marcela came from Valeč. In 1975, his daughter Monika was born. After the revolution in 1989, he worked as a crane operator. He later retired. In 2024, he lived in Lubenec.
