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Ludmila Hájková (* 1929)

There never were worse times than those during the Nazi occupation when they executed my dad

  • born on the 13th of April in 1929

  • she grew in a Prague neighbourhood, Holešovice

  • her father, Vilém Mráček, joined the resistance group Obrana Národa [Defence of the Nation] after tne Nazi occupation in 1939

  • Ludmila helped her father to distribute an anti-Nazi magazine, V boj [Into the Fight]

  • in September 1940, her father was arrested by the Gestapo and in 1942, he was executed in Berlin

  • Ludmila was forced to leave the school

  • since she was fourteen years old, she was forced to work in the ČKD factory in Vysočany

  • in March 1945, she experienced an USAF air raid of Vysočany which damaged the ČKD factory

  • participated in the Prague Uprising

  • she studied at a business academy in Karlín and at the Prague University of Economics and Business

  • Joined the Communist Party

  • after the 1968 occupation, she let her membership in the Party lapse

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