I really wish you were more content with what you have now
Olga Holubová was born on 6 May 1934 in Divišov near Benešov. She comes from a teaching and patriotic family. Towards the end of the war, they had to hide in the cellar for several days as SS troops were marching on Prague through Divišov. After the liberation of Divišov in 1945, Red Army soldiers were accommodated in the house. She graduated from the municipal school in Divišov and the grammar school in Benešov, and played amateur theatre. After graduation she joined the Regional Administration of Communications in Prague (Spojmont). On a holiday in the Krkonoše Mountains, she met her husband and moved to Brno. They have a daughter Ivana. In Brno, she worked as an administrative worker in the economic department of Elektrostroj Brno and completed several temp jobs of socialist labour. In August 1968, when Czechoslovakia was occupied by Warsaw Pact troops, she and her family returned from a holiday in Yugoslavia. They spent three days at the Hungarian border, from where customs officials refused to let them go home. Since the 1970s she has had a garden where she spends most of her time. In 2019 she lived in Brno.