Róbert Rigó

“Was there a school in the area that was actually engaged in smithing, or something like that? Right, it wasn't at that time, it wasn't at that time. It was only later that there was one school in Bratislava and then there was actually a school in Kremnica, but it was later, later. For example, when we actually did blacksmithing, that's because ... actually because there weren't enough schools. Well, I already had a company, I already had a company, as private and next to it, as not to that company, but as a civic association, a civic association, I am ... as I would say. These were such six-month, two six-month courses. We wanted to raise the next generation of blacksmiths. And when was it, if I may ask? That was ... maybe fifteen years ago, fifteen years ago. So I picked out the boys who didn't even go after elementary school, they didn't actually go anywhere to study, so it bothered me a little. We were used to the fact that even in the worst times, in fact in the Dunajská Lužná, everyone was trained there. It wasn't there either that no one was trained, actually ... Well, that bothered me so much. I did two six-month courses, he was a blacksmith-locksmith and at the same time I got a welding license, and so I actually did those courses for thirty graduates, and in the end, they actually got such a small apprenticeship certificate. Such a small apprenticeship. Some of them actually stayed with me afterwards, so I say that I then had fifteen employees there and with that the workshops at that time, because at the time when I did this course there were about twelve or thirteen in the village, so they were employed in other workshops, but they already had their job because we, like that generation, my colleagues, were bothered that the young boys had finished elementary school and did not go anywhere to learn. They actually stayed on the street, they walked down the street all this way and so on. Well, that's how we are, that's what we actually did, and I managed to raise about fifty blacksmiths like that. "

"Basically, we are in year forty-five, and there was such a short period up to year forty-eight, which was also quite specific to these southern territories, as you also mentioned the Hungarian part of the population. And then they were involved, whether on the basis of presidential decrees or perhaps a spontaneous resettlement or some of the Hungarian population. Did something like this happen in Nové Košariská? No, I don't remember that, not even from my parents' story, that there was a move or something like this. Not. And basically that was the election in 1946. I might ask if your parents or maybe grandparents, or someone in the family, was politically involved. Not. Neither the parents nor the grandparents became politically involved. As I keep saying, it was like a role model for us, they were still working on that job. They kept doing the work so that the family had everything they needed at the time, so it wasn't politically interesting, but they were like that again ... That's how I would say ... I remember my father, my father ... that was it , in the fifties, he was a member of the national committee and for a long time he worked, and several of the blacksmiths from the area of ​​Nové Košariská, there were maybe five or six of them, who actually took turns being those deputies. I remember that always with my father, I was five, six years old, I actually went before. They had divided services, smoking in that room where they will actually sit those members of the national committee. So I'm actually saying, back then, it was a kind of coexistence that they were like Hungarians and Germans. The old settlers and the Roma, they respected simply and were very happy to meet. What I actually mentioned, Saturday was done, it was still done ... Sunday was free and they met like this and sat together. Well, in order not to get bored, they also played cards, but it was on pennies, on pennies actually just to meet, to remember and play cards.”