I grew up during the war
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Ludmila Pavlovská, née Lozrtová, was born on 25 June 1938 in Viničné Šumice as the older of two children of Ludmila, née Beránková, and Antonín Lozrt. Her father was a tradesman - a car painter, her mother was a housewife, she took care of children, before her marriage she worked at the Zbrojovka factory. Her parents were devout Catholics, and they led their children to faith as well. As a child, the witness lived through the local war events and liberation, the front line passed through their village. Her father’s brothers - Jindřich and Bedřich Lozrt, twins - were forcibly deployed during the war, survived the bombing and returned home impoverished at the end of the war. After the war, the family moved to Petrovice near Šumperk as part of the resettlement of the borderland. After 1948, her father’s trade was nationalized and Ludmila was not admitted to any secondary school because of her origin. After primary school she started working as a worker in Moravolen in Šumperk. Later, she was trained as a turner in the Velamos factory in Sobotín. In 1957 she met her husband Josef Šupčík there - he worked on a lathe, Ludmila on a grinding machine. The same year they got married. After the wedding they lived with Ludmila’s parents. They raised two children, Zdeněk (1957) and Milada (1959). Later, the witness worked at the Velamos company in Loučná and at a textile warehouse in Šternberk, where she, her husband and children moved in the 1960s. She and her husband divorced, and she married a second time (hence her current surname), and later she and her first husband found their way back together and remarried. In 2024, at the time of recording, she was living in a home for the elderly in Sternberg.
