During the occupation, I was not afraid, but angry.
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Drahomíra Hokeová was born in Prague on 19 July 1934. Her mother Vlasta came from a mixed German-Czech family from Dvůr Králové, her father Bohumil was from Milín near Příbram. She spent her childhood in Vysočany, where the family lived in a factory apartment. The end of the Second World War marked her life significantly. After the bombing of Prague in February 1945, she was sent to the safety of relatives in Krásná Hora nad Vltavou, where she remained until the end of the war. Her parents were actively involved in the resistance against the Nazis during the Prague Uprising. In October 1945, she moved with her parents to the displaced border area of Dolní Poustevna in the Děčín region, where her father, a member of the National Socialist Party, worked as a carpenter. She studied at the grammar school in Rumburk, which she did not finish. From 1952 she worked in administration at Centroflor. She married Jan Hoke from Mikulášovice, whose German family was not displaced after the war thanks to his father’s expertise in the Mikov factory. She and her husband had two daughters. She actively opposed the entry of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968. She lived through the November Revolution of 1989 at the demonstrations in Prague. After the revolution, she started a business producing figurines. After 1989, her husband became the first post-Soviet mayor of Dolní Poustevna. In 2023, at the time of filming, she was still living in Dolní Poustevna in the Děčín region.
