The communists imprisoned his mother; he grew up with his brother in a children’s home
Lubomír Petr was born on October 22, 1940 in Pilsen. His first name got after his father. He grew up in a children’s home in Pilsen until 1952, because his mother Blažena was arrested in 1950. This happened in December, a month earlier her friend, General Ladislav Svoboda, was arrested and accused of high treason, espionage and preparation of an armed uprising. He received the death penalty; on November 13, 1952 he was executed in the prison in Pankrác. In 1955, the mother was released from prison thanks to the amnesty of the president Zápotocký. Later, the witness and his twin brother Ivan went to a technical school in Mladá Boleslav, where they lived in a boarding school. Only the war separated them. While still in high school, he dedicated himself to singing in a choir, with which he traveled to various singing competitions, and also practiced in Sokol. He worked in the Prague branch of Plastimat. In 2022 he lived in Karlín.