Jarmila Drábková

* 1926  †︎ 2021

Forced labour during the WW2, Sokol, Witness of local events from the Communist era
25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
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    They fell so that you could live

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    “He was born to me, I was still in Třebechovice, my first son was born there. He was baptized because of my grandmother. My grandmother wanted Dimitri, so we agreed to name him Boris. And she was Russian and Dad was a legionary, that is my husbands father. And he was in Russia. They arrived really late from there, all the way from Vladivostok over Japan here. Sadly my Dad was executed as he was the post office staff and kept certain letters, which went to the gestapo. So he was sentenced to death right at the trial. There were just a few of them, they have a memorial at the post office in Hradec Králové saying: ´They fell so that you could live.´”

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    The family was confiscated the fields to the collective farm

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    “So we had to do, but we weren't hungry. My parents did not even have to change anything; we already had everything. But then they took it from them, the field, because it was in the field of collective farms, and they took two dad's horses. But the chairman came and he told him to take the scum, that he wouldn't obey even if he killed him. He got stuck and didn't keep going. He only obeyed my dad.”

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    During the war, she was assigned to work in the Škoda factory

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    "We were totally deployed in Skoda. Not in Reich, but in the factory. You were ordered to board the next day and get there. And mostly it was in Reich, but I was lucky. Some were in Nova Pace at Benz, it was a few kilometers from Bělohrad. But I didn't get there and I got to Hradec to the Škoda factory, which is only 50 kilometres away."

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We used to live slower but better

Jarmila Drábková in 2020
Jarmila Drábková in 2020
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Jarmila Drábková, née Šťovíčková, was born on April 8, 1926. She grew up in Lázně Bělohrad. Her mother had a large farm on which Jarmila had to work, the father had a carriage business. She graduated from business school, during the war she was forced to work in the Škoda company in Hradec Králové. She took part in the All-Sokol rallies in 1938 and 1948. Jarmila’s parents refused to join the collective farm, the regime confiscated their property and in 1951 her father lost his business. Jarmila worked as an accountant in Autodružstvo for 40 years. Jarmila Drábková died on September 4, 2021.

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Příběhy našich sousedů

  • date:
    08.01.2020
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    Příběhy našich sousedů
  • author:
    Anežka Doležalová, Vendula Příkopová, Dominika Smrčková ze ZŠ T. G. Masaryka Mnichovice pod pedagogickým vedením Martiny Čermákové