Even the malice of the regime did not destroy the farmer families
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Jarmila Krupková was born on 26 January 1931. She grew up on a farm in Solopysky which her family had built for generations. Given the size of the farm, several army units and groups of people were accommodated there during World War II. Initially, it was the headquarters of the Czechoslovak army; at the end of the war, Germans fleeing from the front (the ‘national guests’) stayed there; in 1945 the Red Army spent a night there; and after the war the Germans waiting for deportation stayed on the farm. During the collectivisation, a half of the farm was nationalised and the father ended up in prison for six months. The mother gave the other half of the farm to the cooperative so the family could continue to live on the farm. In 1955, the witness a farmer in Telce. When she was eight months pregnant in 1957, the farm was nationalised; her father-in-law and brother-in-law ended up in; prison and her husband was sent to work in the mines. Until 1968, the family lived in the Gisela isolated settlement near Duchcov, then moved to Louny. Jarmila Krupková trained as a saleswoman and headed a a children’s shoe shop. She was also an active Sokol member, training until age 86, taking part in rallies and workeding as a Sokol educator. In 2023 she lived in Louny.
