Masaryk was a demigod
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Eliška Leščinská was born on October 14, 1925 in the village of Sirá in the Rokycan region, where her father František Hrabák ran a farm, a country pub and was also appointed as mayor. She and her brothers, František and Miroslav, went to primary school in Lhota pod Radčem. Later on she would walk all the way to the secondary school in Mýto. It was on her way to school that she bumped into German troops that were occupying the republic in March 1939. During the Second World War, she finished school and was subsequently employed at the “straw barn” in Zbiroh, where she manufactured tools for soldiers. She often met up with relatives from Prague who would go to the countryside to get food supplies. When the war ended, she graduated from the School for Housewives in Rokycany. After the February coup in 1948, her father joined the “jednotné zemědělské družstvo” (JZD, Unified Agricultural Cooperative), as did most of the inhabitants of Sirá. In 1950, she married Jiří Leščínský in Horní Bříza, where she started to work in a kindergarten. First as the kindergarten caretaker, and later, after completing her teacher training, she worked as a teacher. In 2021, the witness lived in Horní Bříza with her son and daughter-in-law.
