Nikolai told us not to look forward to the Russians
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Jaromíra Kočnarová, née Košárková, was born on 3 May 1939 in Vsetín. She grew up in the village of Malá Bystřice near Vsetín, and from 1943 her family (presumably) gave shelter to Nikolai Alexandrovich Kuzmin and his guerilla group; little Jaromíra acted as a go-between and messenger for the individual partisan units. Her family helped support the partisan group Za rodinu (For Homeland), which was deployed in Czechoslovakia from the Soviet Union. Later, they came in touch with the 1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka and with partisans of the Štramberk group. The family’s activities were never discovered during the war. After the war the witness worked at a dressmaker’s and at Tesla. In 1958 she married and joined her husband in Náchod, where the couple live to this day.