Everyone hoped that Liptice would not disappear
Zdeněk Pernica was born on July 4, 1946 in the now defunct village of Liptice near Duchcov in North Bohemia. He lived in the village until its demise in 1976, when he moved with his family to newly built prefabricated houses in Duchcov. He trained as an electrician and also worked in the field all his life. On November 18, 1989, he took part in a trip to the Prague Theater, where he experienced the birth of a theater strike after the intervention on Národní třída the day before.