She only meet her father almost twenty years after the end of the war
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Ilga Frélichová was born on September 11, 1940 in Malnice in the Louny region, which is part of Postoloprty. Her father Ervin was of German origin, her mother Helena was Czech. She spent the first years of her life during the war on a family farm. Around 1943, her father had to enlist in the Wehrmacht. Until 1947, the family had no news about him. Ilga first saw him again in 1963 in Erfurt, Germany, where he lived. In June 1945, the Czechoslovak army killed seven hundred people of German nationality in Postoloprty without any trial. The witness learned of the circumstances of one of the largest massacres, the so-called savage expulsion of the Germans, only after the Velvet Revolution. After the war, the authorities moved in half of their land to a resident from Volhynia, who gradually pushed them out of their homes. Along with her mother Ilga went to live with the grandmother. She wanted to go to medical school, but did not receive a recommendation. After a two-year studies at an agricultural school, she had to join a unified agricultural cooperative in Postoloprty, where she worked as an accountant until her retirement. In 2021 she lived in Malnice.
