When parish priest Toufar was arrested by the StB, mourning reigned in Číhošt’
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Květa Korečková, née Trojanová, was born on 20 January 1944 in Tunochody in the Havlíčkobrod region. Her parents were small farmers and due to her father’s illness she had to help her parents from early childhood. At the age of less than six she witnessed the so-called miracle of Číhošt’. After primary school she joined the Unified agricultural cooperative in Číhošt’. At the age of 19 she joined the Communist Party. In 1964 she married Miroslav Koreček. Together they had two children - Miroslav and Marketa. Gradually she supplemented her education and changed jobs. She worked as an accountant, an inspector of vocational training, in Jednota in Havlíčkův Brod. In 1986, she and her family moved to Prague, where she joined the Interhotel Panorama. From 1989 she worked at the Administration of the National Security Corps as a professional economist. During the Velvet Revolution she and her husband supplied the riot police. After the collapse of the communist regime, she started a private business. She and her husband ran canteens and butcher shops. In 1999, the Municipal Court in Prague sentenced her to six and a half years in prison. She perceived the sentence as unjust and appealed to Strasbourg for her release. She worked in Prague at Hope with homeless people. For many years she took care of her husband, who had been fighting cancer for 16 years. In 2022, she was living in Holice.
