I wish that no child had to experience my fate

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Jarmila Ondrášková was born on 8 June 1944 in Prlov in Moravian Wallachia to the family of Antonín and Anna Ondrášek. Both her parents joined the anti-Nazi resistance at the end of the war. When special Nazi taskforce Joseph encircled Prlov on 23 April 1945, twenty-three death sentences were passed after cruel interrogations. Antonín Ondrášek and other two partisans were tortured and hanged near to nearby Bratřejov; his wife Anna Ondrášková and other members of family were burnt to death in a burning house. Ten-month-old Jarmila survived the Nazi rage probably thanks to the fact that her mother managed to throw her out from the window of a closet. The citizens of Prlov who survived found crying Jarmila after the taskforce Joseph left the place. Jarmila Ondrášková then grew up in Valašská Polanka in a family where her mum had grown up. She studied at Secondary Agriculture Technical School in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. She worked in a secret military storehouse in Vyšní Lhota in the area of Ostrava from 1969 to 1975. She also joined the then Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters, she was a member of a successor organization the Czech Freedom Fighters’ Union during the time of shooting in 2020, she was a chairwoman of the Czech Freedom Fighters’ Union in Frýdek-Místek from 2005 to 2020. Jarmila Ondrášková died on August 15, 2022.