She experienced life in custody because of letters that should have brought her hope
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Jaroslava Hýsková was born on the 25th of May 1928 in a small village Věžky near Kroměříž. She grew up in a family of Josefka and František Hýskovi. Father was a mayor for a long time and mum helped in agriculture. Older brother František commenced forced labours for Germany during World War II. He was assigned to a factory in Berlin. At that time under aged Jaroslava was in March 1945 summoned to Gestapo to Přerov because of one of the letters to her brother. Due to her comments about the failure of Germany and about the forthcoming end of war she at last spent fourteen days in prison in Olomouc Thanks to an intervention of her mother and a lawyer from Olomouc she was released from custody and there was no trial until the end of war. Jaroslava has been living in the native home in Věžky her whole life, since the time she went to school up until now. She never got married and she worked as a nurse for more than thirty years in hospital in Kroměříž.
