The church was filled with the dead
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Alena Majkusová was born on the 27th of June 1929 in Prague to a family of bureaucrats. Her father Vojtěch Šebor took part in the Russian anabasis as a legionary during the First World War. In the city quarter of Košíře in Prague 5 she experienced the coming of the German occupation army in the year 1939 and later the seizures of Jewish property. After the implementation of a ration system her family had to deal with an insufficiency in basic goods. In the year 1942 her relatives, the wedded couple Hoškovi, were executed in the concentration camp Mauthausen, who had earlier in the year 1942 helped the parachutists, including Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. The witness has experienced the bombardment of Prague in February 1945 and also the attack of a German fighter on the civillian population in the last days of the war. During the Prague Uprising she built barricades with her neighbors. After the war she studied medicine and worked as a doctor for children. At the medical high school in Klatovy she briefly taught the known child serial killer Marie Fikáčková. She entered retirement in the year 1989 from the position of city pediatrician in Plzeň. She lived in west Bohemian metropole at the time of the recording in 2021.
