All the bells were ringing
Until the outbreak of the war, Anna Kopsová and her siblings led a quite ordinary teenage life. However, the war completely changed the life of the mixed Czech-Jewish family. Anna has very fond memories of how her older sister helped her to get her first part-time job at the Prague Castle. She was selling tickets to the Ethnographic Exhibition in the Vladislav Hall. Even the president's son, Jan Masaryk, would come to this exhibition. When the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk died on September 14, 1937, his bodily remains were exposed in the Vladislav Hall of the Prague Castle. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to the beloved president. Anna Kopsová and her sister Marta were among the first visitors because their uncle Antonín, a former legionary, was a guard of honor at the bier. "We went through the courtyard and all the bells of Prague were ringing for a last time, I had goose bumps", recalls Mrs. Anna today.
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