That curse is in me my whole life
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Anna Plesníková, née Koubová, was born on September 8, 1937 in Brozany nad Ohří. She had four siblings, her father worked as a carpenter and her mother was a housewife, later she worked in the United Agricultural Cooperative (JZD) in Velemín. During the war, her father was employed in a sugar factory in Doksany and was later assigned to work in Terezín, where he secretly distributed his snacks to prisoners. Anna experienced warnings during Allied air raids on the surrounding towns and the liberation of Brozany by the Red Army. After the war, the Koubs moved to Velemín, where they were assigned a house after the expulsion of Germans and a German grandmother, whom their mother then took care of. Shortly after 1948, the Communists confiscated the family’s land and forced them to join the collective farm. Anna graduated from a primary school in Brozany and Velemín. When she was twelve, she sprained her ankle and got tuberculosis of the bones in her injured leg. She had cast a on her leg for several years and was not cured until the hospital in Volyn. She worked for a year in the Coal Warehouses in Lovosice and later in the textile shop in Velemín for nine years. She recalls the occupation of the republic by the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968. In September of the same year, the Russians shot her brother-in-law, Ondrej Oprendek, in Velemín. Anna Plesníková has two children and lives in Velemín.
