Suddenly, flares went off and there were soldiers
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Rosalie Koubová, née Jandová, was born on 31 May 1932 in Mojkov as the youngest of five daughters. When Rosalie Koubová was less than four years old, her mother Františka Jandová (née Reichardová) died. Her father Jan Janda, a trained shoemaker, did not remarry and took care of his five daughters alone. She came from very poor circumstances. The family lived on a small farm (4 ha). During the war, her father was arrested and imprisoned for several days by the Gestapo on the basis of a denouncement from the local mayor. In 1938 she entered the Czech school in Lštění. At the end of the war she witnessed the arrival of the American army in Mojkov. In 1946, she finished primary school, and from then on she worked at her father’s farm. In April 1952, she tried to cross the state border near Český Žleby in Šumava. She was arrested while trying to cross the border and spent several days in pre-trial detention in České Budějovice. The communist jurisdiction sentenced her to four months imprisonment, which she spent in the prison in České Budějovice. After returning from prison, she worked on her father’s farm and went to work in the forest. In 1960 she married and moved to Lenora, where her husband worked as a glass blower. The Koubas’ marriage was not a happy one, and they divorced in the mid-1970s. In 2024, Rosalie Koubová was living in Vimperk.
