Following the currency reform, the farmers lit their cigarettes with banknotes.

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Jaroslava Semeráková was born on April 8, 1941 in Opočné. After the war, the family moved to Broumovska, where the Semeráks experienced the deportation of the Germans. Mom suffered from a serious illness and could not work. So the family lived on only one salary and had no money to spare. When the currency reform took place in 1953, the witness observed ditches full of discarded money and peasants lighting cigarettes with banknotes. In 1968, her husband worked with children in the Boy Scouts. In 2022 Jaroslava Semeráková lived in Mladá Boleslav.