Ľudmila Lofajová

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  • "I know that there were drawings drawn at home for a long time. Two German prisoners asked for crayons and drew, they were with us and I know that there was noise again. At that time, they didn't pay any attention to me at all when something was happening, I was wandering around everywhere. They left, I won't tell you if my father was a witness, nor would I ever ask him about it, because he wasn't that type. They caught the scouts - the Germans. They brought them to us, there the leadership, the headquarters decided that they had to be shot because they would betray them."

  • "I remember in Opatova, when I was at my uncle's, I was about to go to school and I had whooping cough. I was always like that. I walked around the yard wrapped in a scarf and I was coughing. And a wagon passed us with soldiers, but already from the Red Army. And they stopped, the commander jumped out, and then our soldiers got out, uncle, what's wrong with me. I'm coughing, he heard that. And he gave me medicine, a box of medicine and they left. The wagon wasn't that big, or even good, but they went. And when my uncle came with me to the doctor and he looked at it, he said, you don't know what a rare thing you have - they gave me penicillin."

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    Bratislava , 25.06.2024

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Parents expected SNP members to be more respected

Ľudmila Lofajová during eyd recording
Ľudmila Lofajová during eyd recording
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Ľudmila Lofajová was born on March 8, 1940 in Hrnčiarky in the village of Cinobaňa in the Poltár district. In addition to her, her parents Ján and Margita Roštár had one more child – an older sister. Until the end of World War II, the family lived in a mountain hut. Both parents were Partisans and the headquarters met in the mountain hut. After the war, they moved to Cinobaňa, Ľudmila went to live with her uncle in Opatová near Lučenec, where she also attended elementary school for a while. She received her secondary education in Prague at the Social and Legal School. She continued her law studies in Prague and at university – she completed her last two years in Bratislava, where she later settled and started a family with her husband Ján Lofaj – they have two daughters together. In terms of work, she worked for several years on the national committee, but also worked in Incheba and at the Ministry of Health. Currently, Ľudmila Lofajová is retired and dedicated to her great-grandchildren and grandchildren.