It was hard during the war. Today the children are well off.
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Věra Jangotová, née Jalůvková, was born on 20 June 1930 in Přerov. Her father worked at the railway. In 1938 he was appointed to the railway station in Sobotín in the Šumperk region and moved there with his wife and two daughters. The witness and her younger sister went to school in Sobotín, but after the Sudetenland was annexed by Nazi Germany in October 1938, the family returned to Přerov. During the war, after finishing town school, Věra Jangotová joined a tailor’s shop where she trained to be a seamstress. She witnessed the uprising in Přerov and the liberation of the town in May 1945. After February 1948, the owner closed the tailor´s shop and Věra Jangotová lost her job. After her maternity leave she joined Přerov Engineering Works as a plan maker. She came into conflict with her superior during the normalisation screening after the August 1968 invasion, but remained in her job position until her retirement in 1984. She and her husband raised three children. At the time of recording in 2023, Věra Jangotová was living in Alfred Skene’s Home in Pavlovice u Přerova.
