What have they done to our Dad?
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Anna Bořkovcová, née Marešková, was born 1951 in Prague. She spent her childhood around the church of the Vyšehrad canonry where her grandfather worked as a gravedigger. She had one older stepbrother. Her parents Anna Čermáková and RNDr. Vojtěch Mareška got to know each other during meetings of illegal group Catholic Action “Rodina” (“Family”), which was led by prof. Růžena Vacková and priest Josef Zvěřina. Anna’s father was arrested for his involvement in Rodina in February 1954 and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for high treason in the political trial Malíková Jitka and Co. He was released on parole in amnesty in 1960. Růžena Vacková was Anna Bořkovcová’s godmother and both women were meeting regularly after Růžena’s release from prison in 1967. These meetings gradually evolved in art history seminars which were held in prof. Vacková’s apartment. Mrs. Bořkovcová and her husband later had contacts with people who were involved in Charter 77. Anna Bořkovcová graduated from Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague and then worked as an elementary school teacher. In 1990 she became involved in municipal politics in Prague 11 for a brief time. She subsequently worked as a social coordinator in the Social Care Centre in Prague (municipal Social Services Centre). She has brought up her four children and she is now retired.
