In the years 2004 and 2005 a survey was conducted that focused on recording of authentic testimonies about the everyday lives of women in the country predominantly in the second half of the 20th century. Correspondents of the Czech Ethnographical Society, students and female seniors from different parts of the Czech Republic took part in the survey. this report reveals the results including characteristic quotations. The information was obtained from different localities on an uneven basis. There is a compact set of records from four villages in eastern Moravia and four authentic testimonies from Těšín region in the foothills of Beskydy Mountains. The information was either handwritten by the respondents, or their narration was recorded by the Czech Ethnographical Society correspondents, students of Silesian University or by a local chronicler. The outline of the research was available to everyone. We were above all interested in the changes which rural families had to go through in the second half of the 20th century due to collectivization of land and changes in social and economic conditions.
Although researchers showed their high interest in culture of the ethnographic area of Chodsko, A text by a regional associate of the Czech Ethnological Society dating back to 1961 about wooden shoes (clogs) that were still commonly worn in Czech countryside at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries; in the first third of the 20th century, they were only worn by older people, or by the destitute. The shoes were manufactured in south and south-west Bohemia in particular, and were used above all as work shoes by agricultural workers and by the inhabitants of villages in general; children used to wear them on their way to school (also in winter). The author also presents several witnesses´ memories of their childhood, when they wore clogs
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Keď som pred dvadsiatmi rokmi v novembri 1992 čítala parte fyzika prof. Jozefa Kvasnicu, DrSc., zaujalo ma jeho motto, ktorým bol citát Alberta Einsteina "Len život, ktorý žijeme pre druhých, stojí za to". Áno, jeho život bol skutočne pre druhých, povedali sme si vtedy s manželom a dcérou, veď sme sa veľmi dobre poznali a spolu komunikovali 35 rokov. and Angela Zentková, Anton Zentko.
When evaluating German inhabitants memories relating to the 1946 expulsion, the significant criteria are the age and the gender of those participating, which have a crucial influence on the participants´ attitude to the events they experienced. The theme of the memories includes mainly preparations for the expulsion, farewell to home, hardships on the way, circumstances of the arrival, beginnings in a foreign environment, as well as gradual assimilation and improvement in the coexistence with domestic population. Sometimes, the theme includes post-war family re-unification, renewed contacts to friends, and care of mementoes that they brought from the former fatherland with them. The older German emigrants had grievances in relation to the Czechs, which - in the case of some of them - survived until their death. The younger generation, i.e. the expulsed children at that time, shows rather nostalgia, interest in the present-day life in their home towns and villages, and new contacts to their contemporary inhabitants. The expulsion of German fellow citizens was also reflected in experiences and recollections of the Czech residents in the Vyškov area. As to the bearer´s bias and experience, the expulsion was perceived either in a positive way with feelings of satisfaction, or in a negative way with expressions of sorrow and sympathy.