One could choose either to agree or not to agree. I chose not to.
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Věra Kavková was born on 22 September 1937 in Kroměříž. Her father Ladislav Kavka (1905–1977) worked in a savings bank in Kroměříž, her mother Marie, née Mlčochová (1913–2002) was a stay-at-home spouse. During the war, her father was, together with future president Ludvík Svoboda, active in the Kroměříž group of Defence of the Nation resistance organization. The father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, he was then imprisoned in Ostrava and later in concentration camp Gross-Rosen near Wroclaw. He returned home approximately two months before the end of the war. The family spent the liberation in Hulín. After the Secondary-school leaving exam in 1955, she graduated from the Pedagogical Faculty at J. E. Purkyně University in Brno and became a history teacher. She taught at the university in Brno in the second half of the 1950s. However, first, she had to join the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Her disagreement with the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops ended her job at the university and also membership in the Czechoslovak Communist Party. She later had problems getting a job. The witness had to change work many times and on top of being a teacher, she had to make extra money by cleaning. Věra Kavková lived in Brno in 2021.
