Jitka Juračková

"At the time, I was a woman with a high school education, under the age of 25. So at that time I was suggested to become a deputy in the town hall, it was a national committee at the time. And so I took it, because then they probably wouldn't let me teach. They would tell me that if I did not take the parliament, I have nothing to teach here. So I took it and I was there for about eight years, because my term of office was four years, but it came in handy again after 1989, when I was already a representative who knew how things went there and what we had. . (…) There were two such robbers there because I was not in the party, and Mr. Miroslav Kmet (…), who wrote memories of Holice here and was the first director of the cultural house in Holice. So there were two of us who always voted against a draft or kept asking questions. And that was something the communists didn't need that at all, did they?"

"At that time, there were demonstration strikes at universities that did not go to school, but tried to promote why the demonstration actually took place and how the children were abused. And they had a so-called strike emergency at the universities, and because they were there at night, Mr. Strnad ran a fruit and veg shop here in Holice and brought fruit there. And we got to the point that my husband had time off in the morning because he taught at the folk art school, so he could go to Hradec with him in the morning and help him get away with it, so in fact my husband, and then me, because of course someone had to look after the children, someone had to know where he had gone if he hadn't returned, where I should have called, who would have taken care of him if he had been arrested, and so on. That's how our family got into it, we organized various meetings. And our family arranged that when the general strike was approaching on November 27, so that the Holice was not as if nothing was happening here, we announced the strike and the demonstration in front of the culture house in our local radio."