This is a photograph of me as a little baby. I couldn't have been more than a few months old. The photograph is from Zlatna na Ostrove, where my parents were living at the time. The year was 1925.
My father's first job was at Zlatna na Ostrove. There he worked as a superintendent of one large property. Our mother lived there with him, of course. That's also where I was born in 1925, and four years later also my brother, Imrich. I didn't attend nursery school, because our mother was able to take care of us at home, as she wasn't employed anywhere. I don't remember much of the years spent in Zlatna na Ostrove, because I only attended my first three grades of people's school there, and then we moved somewhere else.
Magda Frkalova
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