Fear at the beginning of collectivisation
(audio)… "When they formed the JZD, they came here and my dad knew they would take the farm … friend, walked around. They kept talking about when the JZD (cooperative) was going to take it. The JZD took it all. All the farms, cattle and fields were …
They didn't accept me at the school of economics because my mother wasn't a member of the Unified Agricultural Cooperative (JZD)
(video)… was not a member of the Unified Agricultural Cooperative (JZD). Do you know what that meant to me at the age of … wasn't a member of the Unified Agricultural Cooperative (JZD) …
We'll join the cooperative farm when Kun does so
(audio)… his harvest. They wanted him to join the cooperative farm [JZD], but he refused. Everybody in the village didn't want to join the JZD because of that. They always said, 'We will join when …
The road to the farms collective
(audio)… “They didn’t admit us to the JZD in 1948, as they were afraid of the big landowners … 14 big landowners, us included, were not admitted to the JZD. Word started spreading that we would finally come … for impoverishment.” Interviewer: “Did you want to join the JZD?” “No, we didn’t. But they said that they’d deport us …
Imprisonment of his father during collectivisation
(video)… "And when we were taken over by the JZD (Unified Agriculture cooperative), about fourteen head … of beef, three horses, about four or five pigs went to the JZD. And that was also... The contingents were so unbearable … Lenas, who had half a hectare of a garden there, set up a JZD there, and then they started herding people there. My …
My grandpa chose to go to prison instead
(video)… villages and luring them into that cooperative, into that JZD. Always after working hours, when they were the most … and walk into their houses and persuade them to go to that JZD. Those who didn't have land went there, those who had … It ended up that eventually grandpa had to go to that JZD, that was in the fifty-ninth year. When they got there, …
We got terrible lands in exchange for our first-class fields
(video)… "Before the JZD (unified agricultural cooperative) started, people had … Those fields of ours were near the village. Then the JZD started and they changed our fields. They took our good … them for the fields of the farmers who had entered the JZD first. At that time the farmers were more or less …
Beginning of collectivization in Terezín
(audio)… "In 1949, they began to persuade people in villages to enter JZD. Well, that's when the smart guys came. The workers in … of collective farming. All the citizens then joined the JZD. Terezín was the first village in the Hodonín district where all the citizens were in the JZD. 102 members. On October 4th of the same year, there was …
It took a year and the garden centre was bulldozed
(video)… "My parents joined the JZD (agricultural cooperative) in 1962. They persisted until 1962, then joined the JZD." - "Why did they enter?" - "Because they knew we …
Managing Co-op
(audio)… so I started farming. But then they forced us to join the JZD. That was in 1952. You see, my wife was ill, so she … one of my horses to death and broke my tractor. I left the JZD after a year. I tried to manage on my own for another …