Children, why did not you stay at home, in this weather!

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Jiřina Kotalíková, née Balíková, was born April 6, 1926. She grew up together with her younger brother in the village Chobot in south-western Bohemia. Their father worked on their small farm and her mother was a seamstress. Jiřina attended elementary school in Černívsko and then a higher elementary school in Blatná. During the war, when she completed her compulsory school education, she had to work as a non-skilled helper in a hotel and in a veterinary’s office. After the war she married and she moved to Chomutov.