I didn’t know that it was the last day when I saw my father
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Hana Pavelková was born on May 19, 1930 in the family of locksmith František Mandys in Řepy. She spent her childhood in poverty, three out of the nine siblings survived and often suffered from hunger. Her father joined the resistance movement during the war, together with Josef Líkař and Václav Řehák they produced explosives for the resistance organization Defense of the Nation. He was arrested and then all of them were executed at the Kobylisy shooting range. However, neither Hana Pavelková nor her mother knew almost anything about her father’s resistance activities. After the war, she completed her basic education and she worked as a shopping assistant in a bakery. She got married in 1947 and soon had two sons. She worked as a cleaner in a research institute, later as a shopping assistant in a canteen and in the consumer cooperative Včela.
