Miletice #31
In April of 2008, Margit Salz of the Netherlands posted a comment on this website, inquiring about “Miletice 31,” the address listed as the residence of the George Jindra family in SW Bohemia before emigrating to the US. (She did a websearch under that term, which was listed in our family history from earlier research). The property has been in the family of her husband Harry Salz for a long time, and after checking dates it was determined that the Jindra family likely sold this property to the Salz family in 1868 when they emigrated. Harry, age 85 in 2008, remembers youthful visits to this property (about 5 hectares or 12 ½ acres) where his grandparents lived, and who had some cows and grew rye, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and hay on this land. Custody of the property was lost during WWII due to German expropriation (the Salz family was Jewish, and many of them died in concentration camps in WWII) and also during the Communist era.
Harry survived, lived in Prague after the war, but after the 1968 Czech uprising and subsequent Communist crackdown, they moved to the Netherlands. In 1992, a few years after the downfall of Communism, they were notified that they could claim their property, and they did so. The old house was replaced (it had deteriorated), and a new house was built on the property.
Miletice is still a small village, but now many younger people, who work in nearby towns, have replaced the older residents. The local priest does not know or remember any Jindras in the area who have lived there a long time.
