I had to live in that society
Zdenka Bujnová was born on 27 September 1949 in the village of Rajčany in the Nitra region. Her grandfather Adam Bujna fought in the First World War. Her father Štefan Bujna was totally deployed in the forced labour camp in Nováky during the Second World War. Subsequently, he was to be deported to a concentration camp, but managed to escape from the train. After 1948, the family lost their fields and, after the currency reform, their savings. Zdenka Bujnová graduated from the secondary school of education in the 1960s and subsequently worked as a kindergarten director in Skačany and Partizánske. After the Velvet Revolution, she additionally studied special education and then worked with children with disabilities. At the time of the interview (2020) she lived in Partizánske.