He brought his father lunch when he was guarding a savings bank
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Josef Krejčík was born on 31 July 1932 in Přelouč to a family of a basket-maker. We started to attend school in Přelouč in 1938. The family listened to a foreign radio thanks to the so-called “churchilka” (a type of device that enabled people to listen to foreign radio - trans.) that were illegally manufactured by the Radiotechna Přelouč company. Witness´s father joined the Revolutionary Guards at the end of the war and he took part in disarming the Nazis. Josef brought him lunches and helped to accommodate the prisoners of war. When he finished the town school, he studied to become a basket-maker, and then he started to work in the Tesla company in Přelouč. He spent his military service from 1950 to 1953 in the Technical auxiliary battalions because his father was self-employed. He returned to the Tesla company and he graduated from Secondary Technical School. He worked his way up to safety technician in the company and supervised safety at work. He got married in 1956 and had two children. He joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party in the 1970s. He got retired in 1989 and he lived in his native home in Přelouč in 2022.
