Young people should be told the truth
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Jana Jobová, née Pokorná, was born on February 2, 1944 in Pernštejnské Janovice in Vysočina as the eldest of three siblings. They lived with their family in Brno from the age of two. She spent most of her time with her grandparents in Vysočina. Her grandfather ran a library in the village, so little Jana got to read quality literature from an early age. Her father was a teacher at an industrial school in Brno, where Jana joined in 1958. Her mother was a seamstress and worked from home. In 1962, the witness successfully graduated. At the end of 1963, she met her future husband, Miroslav Job. He was previously convicted in a fabricated political trial and spent twelve years in the worst communist camps. (Jáchymovsko, Leopoldov and others). In 1964, right after the wedding, the family moved to Prague. After the August invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, they hastily decided to leave Czechoslovakia. They already had two small children and were expecting a third. The family found a new home in Switzerland. The husband worked as a teacher in a Czech school. After 1989, the Jobs bought a homestead in Vysočina and returned to their homeland several times a year. Miroslav Job died surrounded by his loved ones in 2014. At the time of the interview (2021), Jana Jobová lived close to her children and twelve grandchildren in a small town a few kilometres from Zurich.
