We were the last German family in Skláře
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Anna Motzová, née Mirwald, was born on 26 November 1930 in a German family in Skláře, a part of the village of Hořice in Šumava, in the Czechoslovak border region. After the Munich SAgreement in 1938, the Mirwald family was automatically granted Reich citizenship. During the war, she worked on a farm after she turned 14. After the end of World War II, her older sister Marie lived in Austria and her brother Johann, who served in the Wehrmacht, never returned home from the war and lived with his sister. Anna Motzová, her parents and her sister Pauline did not become part of the wild or orderly expulsion of the German population, but remained in Czechoslovakia as a necessary force in agriculture, working for a farmer on a farm. They were not expelled from their home in Skláře until 1947, when they were deported inland, to the town of Velešín, to the farmer Klein. A family from Romania moved into their house. Subsequently, in 1948, they were moved again to Červený Dvůr near Chvalšiny. Anna Motzová married Karel Motz, who came from a mixed Czech-German family, and they had two daughters together. She worked all her life in agriculture. In 2025, she was living in Červený Dvůr.
