At the All-Sokol Gathering, they urged us not to protest against the government
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Bohumíra Černohorská, née Kaplanová, was born on December 25, 1933 in Lysá nad Labem to the family of farmer Rudolf Kaplan and Barbora, b. The Hejňáková from Byšičky. In addition to working in agriculture, her father also devoted himself to music, her mother worked on the family farm. In 1937, Rudolf Kaplan died prematurely. Mother remarried before the war, and Bohumíra grew up in a loving, complete family. She recalls partial events from the period of the Protectorate and the end of the war. In 1945, she started attending Sokol, participated in Sokol camps, the county meeting in Lysá nad Labem and the All-Sokol meeting in 1948. In 1949, she graduated from a girls’ burgher school in Lysá nad Labem, after which she graduated from a two-year business school in Prague. In 1954, her parents were forced to join the unified agricultural cooperative (JZD), after two years they left it. In 1955, Bohumíra married Vladimír Černohorský, who could not study at the university for political reasons. They raised a son and a daughter. Bohumíra worked in Prague and in Lysá nad Labem in Labora. She worked as a trainer in Sokol, where she was also the chief, and in 1990 she participated in the All-Sokol Gathering in Paris.
