The children should know everything, how we used to live
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Věra Holmanová was born on March 6, 1936 as Věra Doležalová in Drválovice in the Boskovice region. Father Alois Doležal spent four years in Russia as a legionnaire in the First World War. During the war, the family supported guerrillas and Soviet soldiers who escaped from captivity and hid in a bunker in the woods. They brought clothes and supplies for them. Her cousins and uncle also joined the resistance. The group was revealed by the Gestapo based on the allegations. His father was arrested in 1943 and his mother in 1944. Alois Doležal died on September 4, 1944 in Wrocław (then Breslau), and his mother Anežka Doležalová was executed by the Gestapo on October 5, 1944 in Pankrác. Věra grew up with an older sister, since 1946 she has spent three and a half years in an orphanage in Boskovice. In Hradec Králové, she trained as a gardener and flower tyer, and worked for many years in the flower hall in Hradec Králové. She married and had two children. Today (2019) she lives in Hořice.
