I slept through the end of the war
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Milada Ambrožová was born on 20 January 1928 in Plumlov to parents Františka and Bruno Filip. During the war, as young Sokol members, they used to meet secretly in the isolated settlement of Pohodlí. The owner of the local inn, Mr. Vítek and his sons, were arrested by the Gestapo for helping partisans six months before the end of the war, and the elder son František was executed in Kounic’s dormitories. She herself witnessed the arrest of her class teacher and her uncle Karel Kubín did not survive the extermination camp in Auschwitz. After graduating from the municipal and town school, she graduated from the Business Academy in Prostějov in 1949. In 1952 she married Antonín Ambrož and they had two children, son Antonín (1953) and daughter Blanka (1956). All her life she liked to exercise, learn languages, but most of her time in recent years was devoted to looking after her four grandchildren. At the time of the recording (2023) she was living in a home for the elderly in Soběsuky near Plumlov.
