I have a strong respect for life
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Julie Poulíková was born on October 13, 1939 in Gemelčička (Romanian Făgetu) in the Bihor-Salayan region of Romania. She was born as the seventh of ten children to her parents Ondrej and Maria Galek. Her family was one of the Slovaks living in the hills of the Plopiš Mountains (Munţii Plopişului) in the Bihor-Salayan region in northwestern Romania, of which about 30,000 lived in the area at the time. During World War II, they tried to save a Jewish girl by adoption. During this period, two uncles of the witness had to enlist in the Hungarian army. While Petr Daniel returned from Soviet captivity after the war, Lukáš Galek fell at the front. In 1948, the family re-emigrated to Czechoslovakia and settled in the border village of Chrastice in northwestern Moravia. In 1960, Julie married the gamekeeper Josef Poulík. For eight years they lived with the children in the middle of the forests in the solitude of Bystřina before returning to Chrastice. After her husband’s death, Julie Poulíková moved to the nearby Stare mesto, where she lives still in 2020.
