The war ended my childhood
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Olga Weissová, née Kutíková, was born on October 15, 1930 in Nymburk, where she spent her entire life. Her father owned a large car workshop where her mother helped with administration. It was there that she experienced the arrival of the German occupation troops in 1939. The soldiers treated them well then. My father had a number of Jewish customers, and over the years they gradually began to disappear, which the whole family took badly. Her friend Eva Picková died in a concentration camp. She lived through the liberation in Nymburk and witnessed the violence against the Germans. After the communist takeover, her father lost his car workshop. As a member of the Rotary Club, he was arrested and interrogated for allegedly planning to emigrate. Olga Weissová successfully graduated from the Nymburk Gymnasium in 1950, but she was not allowed to study at university. However, she was able to enter a language school, where she passed the state exam in English and French after a year. In 1951 she married a doctor, Zdeněk Weiss. She and her husband raised two sons. After her maternity leave, she worked as a foreign language teacher at the Nymburk Grammar School, where she remained until her retirement. In 2024 she lived in Nymburk.
