Don’t take my daddy!
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Naděžda Kovářová, née Neherová, was born on 30 January 1936 in Prostějov as the older of two children to Vlasta and František Neher. Her father worked as a domestic tailor for the Prostějov Clothing Company, and her mother worked in Kornolitka in Prostějov. The family lived in Držovice. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested her father for listening to foreign radio. At first, he was held in Olomouc in the so-called “garnyak”, and after some time, he was sent to forced labour at the Polish border, where he sewed uniforms for soldiers. He did not return until 1945. Naděžda Kovářová experienced the liberation of Držovice by the Romanians and the Red Army. As children, they watched the explosions on the railway line near Prostějov carried out by partisans. She trained as a mechanical locksmith in Agrostroj and later worked as a technical and management worker in the Lutín mills. She got married for the first time in 1955. Her husband Vladimír Kovář, a lathe-turner and footballer, died early of heart problems. They had two sons born from the marriage. In 1982, she remarried Josef Jedlička, an educator at the Lutín apprenticeship school, where she then moved to live with her husband. His daughter also became part of the family. In 2023, at the time of filming, she lived in Náměšť na Hané.
