Truncheon Blow Instead of Going to School

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When Miroslav Fišer was thirteen years old, the Polish army took over his native town Rychvald. The town was occupied after the Munich Agreement, on October 11, 1938, as a part of the Teschen territory. A wave of resistance arose against this decision and on October 18 there was a demonstration for re-opening of Czech schools. As a boy, Jaroslav Fišer participated in this demonstration with his parents. “Rychvald was quite Czech because there was a Czechoslovak Church. People there had patriotic sentiment. I was present there when my parents were asking them to keep the Czech school. The event took part by the Church, and the Polish came on horses and broke up the crowd. Holding the truncheon they said: ‛What half do you want? White or black?’ The white part was a handle and the black was the end of the truncheon. Some people were quite beaten,” he recalled. Soon after that, all thee town representatives and functionaries of the Czechoslovak organizations were expelled from the town.

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Miroslav Fišer

Ing. Miroslav Fišer was born in 1925 in Rychvald, which successively belonged to three states in the period 1938-1939. When the city was ruled by the Germans, Miroslav Fišer had to enroll in the Wehrmacht in 1943. After two months of training by the North Sea, he was assigned to the German Navy, (Kriegsmarine). He became a member of a crew of a smaller vessel that escorted the merchant ships on their route between Spain and France. His ship was sunk by the Allies near the city of Quimper. Miroslav Fišer joined the French partisans. Shortly after, he enlisted in the independent Czechoslovak brigade in Great Britain and after a short training, he joined the besiegers of Dunkirk. After the war, he was demobilized and studied at a technical college in Karviná. After the screenings of 1948, he was almost dismissed from school but he managed to get a testimonial from Ludvík Svoboda. Eventually, he was even allowed to complete his university studies and earned a degree in engineering. He presently lives in Rychvald.

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Rychvald

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The first written account of Rychvald, (in Polish Rychwald, in German Reichwald), dates back to the year 1305. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the town shortly belonged to Poland, but during the second partition of the Těšín region, it had become a part of Czechoslovakia. On 11th October 1938, after the Munich Treaty was concluded, it was occupied by the Polish army and in 1939, the German army had occupied it. In 1945 Rychvald was returned to Czechoslovakia.

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Truncheon Blow Instead of Going to School

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