We were a thorn in their flesh
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Marie Janalíková was born on 9th August 1942 in Uherské Hradiště into the family of a pharmacist Dr. Miloslav Souček, who was in 1951 sentenced to twelve years of prison in show trial known as Action „Včelka” with members of an alleged anti-Communist group. The Communists falsely accused him to be the key person of resistance group gathering weapons from western spies and organizing armed resistance near Uherský Brod. Miloslav Souček went through the custody in Uherské Hradiště, where he met with the interrogator Alois Grebeníček, the prison in Vítkovice, Mírov, Příbram and Ilava. He was released in 1960 thanks to the amnesty of the president Novotný. His imprisonment had a deep impact on his family throughout the whole period of the Communist regime. Communists confiscated all their property, wife of Miloslav Souček couldn’t find a proper job, their children were forbidden to study at university, secret police monitored the whole family and provoked them to criminal activity. After his release, Dr. Souček continued in his pharmaceutic profession. His daughter Marie Janalíková completed the teacher’s institute in Kroměříž and worked as a teacher at a nursery school where she eventually became a director. Along with her sister Hana and other members of the Confederation of Political Prisoners they established the civil society organization Dcery that brings into focus the life stories of political prisoner’s families.
