The Germans did the worst things at the end of the war
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Zdena Matějová was born in 1934 in Kamýk nad Vltavou. Her father owned construction company and her mother was a housewife. Zdena was their only child. Two years later the family moved to Sedlc near Sedlčany, where Zdena spent her childhood. During the war she witnessed deportations of local Jews to concentration camps. In the last two years of the war, SS troops were stationed in the school building in Sedlc, and the children therefore attended the school in nearby Jetřichovice. Zdena experienced the uprising in Sedlc at the end of the war, including all atrocities which were done to civilians. After the liberation she attended higher elementary school and then she started studying at the trade academy in Tábor. In 1948 her father was forced to close down his private company. After graduation Zdena worked in a savings bank and in a bank. In 1960, when the branch of the bank in Sedlčany closed down, she found another job in the state-owned company State Farms. In 1970 she had a serious accident, and as a result she has been living on disability allowance since then. Her husband died in 1986. Zdena Matějová lives in Sedlčany.
