Post-war love in Liberec. A Czech married a widow of a Wehrmacht soldier
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Hana Korcinová was born in Liberec on January 12, 1952 as Kyralová. She had a brother Jiří, four years older. Her mother was Brunhilda Bürgerová, who was born in Liberec on March 10, 1920 and was of German nationality. Her mother avoided deportation, although she married for the first time a German soldier, Simon, who was killed on the Eastern Front. Hana Korcinová’s father was Brunhilde’s second husband František Kyral, a Czech from Jablonné v Orlických horách, who worked in Germany as a totaled soldier during World War II. The authorities did not allow them to marry until 1950. In 1956, the family moved to Jablonec, where Hana Korcinová worked in Bytex or Jablonex. During the Cold War years she was in contact with German relatives, one part of whom moved from Liberec to Germany in 1942 and the other was deported in 1946. She has three children, two daughters and a son. After 1989, she began to research her family history and put together a family archive. In 2021, Hana Korcinová was living in Jablonec.
