She was hiding under the covers when a Soviet soldier burst into the house with a handgun
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Anna Feigl, née Müller, was born on 1 January 1938 in Broumov. She had an older sister and an older brother from her father’s previous marriages. Her parents farmed in Bučnice near Teplice nad Metují. The whole family was of German nationality. In 1944 she started to attend the German school in Teplice nad Metují. In the spring of 1945, “national guests” fleeing from the eastern regions stayed with them. In June 1945, a group of Czechs forced my father and other German neighbours to look for weapons in the woods and dig their own graves; they were beaten but not shot. In the spring of 1946, the whole family had to go to the camp in Meziměstí and awaited deportation. Eventually they returned to Bučnice, but their house was already occupied. The witness entered the Czech school in Teplice nad Metují. In 1948 they were evicted to the village of Háj in the Podkrušnohoří region. She went to the town school in Vejprty, her father and brother were building roads for the Jáchymov mines. In 1956 she got married and had two daughters. She worked in the electrical equipment factory in Kovářská. In 1967 they moved to Germany, settled in Ingolstadt, where their son was born. She cleaned in a private doctor’s office for 30 years. In 2025, she was living in Ingolstadt.
