The German soldiers were lost and hungry. We fed them
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Růžena Vobejdová was born on October 17, 1932 in Borová next to Polička as the eldest of seven children. Her parents Václav and Anna Renz had a small farm. The witness’s father inherited the debts of the house and the field from her parents and had to repay them. At the end of the war, the fleeing German army and civilians passed through the village. After the end of the war, Václav Renza had to remove ammunition. When he did not go to the brigade after a series of signs, five people died in an explosion in May 1945. Růžena Vobejdová started to work after primary school. In 1948, the StB arrested a local priest, Jan Hanyk. In order not to have to work as the chairwoman of the ROH, she went to another job. In 1953, she married Oldřich Vobejda. In the same year, they lost savings due to the currency reform. They had trouble finding housing. They built a family house in the early 1960s. In 1955 their son Oldřich was born and in 1962 their son Milan. In 2021 Růžena Vobejdová lived in her house in Borová u Poličky.
