We noticed no difference between the Pachners and other families in the Německý Brod of the day. In a late 19th century census however, we found a column describing the religion of the citizens. This one column contained something that made the Pachners differ from most of the others. There it stood: "Religion: Israelite". This one word was all that made them unlike the others. Other than this, they lived a perfectly normal life, just like millions of others. They considered themselves Czech and their practice of Judaism was rather lukewarm. The children of Josef and Barbora were taught religion at school, but never proclaimed it in adulthood - they were atheists, which is proved, for example, by the 1921 census records. Their peaceful lives were left as such until the coming of World War II.