We lost everything twice, there was nothing but work
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Anna Plobner was born on 5 February 1932 in the settlement Na Šancích. The settlement belonged administratively to the populous village of Pavlův Studenec in the Tachov region. She grew up there in the family of Josef and Sophie Wallerer together with her older sister Berta and younger brother Joseph. The settlement and the whole village belonged to the Sudetenland, which was annexed by Nazi Germany after the Munich Agreement. Most of the men had to enlist in the war on the side of the Third Reich. This was also the case for the father of the witness. Her mother had to take care of her three children alone, and even when they were young they had to do a lot of work. In the woods, in the fields, on the land. After the war, almost all the local German-speaking population was expelled. The Wallerer family was on the last transport from Studenec, which left the village on September 7, 1946. The transport lasted about two months before its movement stopped in the Soviet zone on 19 November 1946 at the home of a kind woman who gave the family shelter in her house. The deep desire of the whole family, however, was to continue on back to the Czech-German border in Bärnau. Despite the subsequent complications of being first captured at the border in January 1947 in the American zone, they wandered through camps in Lower Bavaria, and after several years in this German area, the father and all the children obtained work in a button factory in Bärnau. Finally, in 1953, they were able to move to their desired location. Anna Plobner later married here in 1961, and her husband was a former classmate from her primary school, a native of the village of Francovy domky in Pavlův Studenec. They started a new family together in Bärnau, raised two children and built a new house with their own hands.
