Christmas with the Kinsky family
Růžena Zouharová – being the daughter of a coachman from the manor farm estate of Count Kinsky and a seamstress – and her siblings, had the opportunity to spend Christmas each year with the Count Kinsky and his family at their chateau in Moravský Krumlov: "We always got an invitation. The children of the employees of the Kinsky family who worked at the estate were always invited. There was hospitality and the children got some flannel clothes, so we all looked like wearing a uniform. The clothes were good, very warm,"she remembered. The last time she visited the Kinsky family was in 1937. Since then, there were no more charity gifts giveaways.
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Růžena Zouharová
Růžena Zouharová, was born as Vyhnálková by the end of 1928 in Moravský Krumlov as the fourth and the last child of a coachman and a housemaid Jan Vyhnálek and Anna Vyhnálková, born as Watzinger. It was a nice example of a bilingual family with different national origins. As Germans, both Jan Vyhnálek's brothers were displaced to Austria after the war. From the mother's side, the Watzinger family was also divided by different attitudes. The family lived in the so called Distillery. In 1934 Růžena started attending a Czech school, which she attended until 1938. She didn't speak German, at home they spoke Czech only her parents sometimes spoke German. In September 1938, Moravský Krumlov became a part of the German Reich and the Czech school was closed. She would have to visit the Czech school in a nearby village, about an hour distance on foot. Her mother decided the Růžena would attend a German school. After finishing the school, she started working as a nanny in a Czech-German family. She witnessed the bombing of Moravský Krumlov, the arrival of the Red Army and the displacement of the Germans. She also speaks about the last count of Moravský Krumlov, count Kinský.
