Mrs. Klempárová

When the order came from the Ger­mans to move the Roma out of the vil­lage, they took them to the for­est, but peo­ple had nowhere to live. The vil­lage may­or there­fore allowed them to cut down some saplings to build huts. Mrs. Klem­párová’s father was already old and had a vil­la in the vil­lage apart from the oth­er Roma hous­es. He was sup­posed to move out too, but he want­ed a lot of mon­ey from the vil­lage for the vil­la; if they could­n’t afford it, he could stay in the house. Mrs. Klem­párová and her small son Cyril want­ed to stay with him, but the ​“damned Roma,” as she called them, went to the may­or and com­plained, so they had to go to the for­est and stay with her mother-in-law.