We were evicted from our villa in Pardubice to two rooms in the borderland
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Jarmila Hejtmanská was born on 30 August 1943 in Ždírec nad Doubravou. Her mother Soňa (1909-1988) had a daughter Miloslava from her first marriage, born in 1930. After her marriage to Vladimír Krupař they had a daughter Soňa in 1941, a son Vladimír in 1942 and after Jarmila another son Antonín in 1945. Her father Vladimír Krupař (1908-1962) was a soldier by profession. In 1947, the family moved to a military villa in Pardubice, from where, however, the father, as a demoted soldier, had to move out with the whole family in 1951. This is how they got to Králíky, where Jarmila’s uncle Antonín Honzák, who was already living and who helped the family. Antonín Honzák (1912-1986) was a Renaissance man with wide interests including theatre, hiking, and nature. He was a natural role model for children and ended up in prison for scouting in the 1950s. Little Jarmila witnessed his arrest first hand. She went to high school in Králíky for eleven years, graduating in 1960. She aspired to be a teacher, but her further studies and those of many other classmates were prevented by an ambitious comrade teacher who monitored religious pupils. So Jarmila joined Tesla Králíky, where she worked all her life until her retirement in 1998. In 1950-1961, the monastery on the Mountain of the Holy Mother above Králíky was turned into an internment monastery, where the communist authorities concentrated the deported monks in April 1950 after the “K” Action. Jarmila and her mother used to meet the imprisoned priests in the fields below the monastery and pick strawberries for them. In 1960 she took a training course and practised all her life. Since 1955 she has participated in all the Spartakiads, later the Sokol gatherings, and is currently rehearsing with the women for the 2024 Gathering. In 1964 she married Vladimír Hejtmanský, born in 1941, and they had three children in 1966, 1969 and 1974. With her husband, she built the Nativity scene in Králíky each year, which they inherited from their uncle Honzák and which they showed to the public. In 2022, she and her husband lived in Králíky.
