Josef Wawrzacz

“Then we distributed the alcohol to our customers such as the school boiler operator. He would regularly purchase two or three bottles. Or we would pack it with my mum to bags and travel to Bystřice. Everyone who worked with alcohol had their customers. We needed to build a house and many people did that to improve their situation. Every other house was built on this profit.”

“Some Polish people had a field or a meadow on the Czech side of the border and some of our farmers had their estate in Poland. On the border there was a small customs house where a single soldier allowed the farmers across the border based on an agricultural permit. Out of the Hrčava people the Stojaspáls, Haratycs and Kinžors for instance had their fields in Poland. There were quite a number of them. In the morning they harnessed the horses, went across the customs house where they checked them and then went on to the field.”