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Jarmila Rousová, née Mičková, was born in Rousměrov near Žďár nad Sázavou in the Vysočina on 9 May 1936. She grew up as the only child in a family of farmers. Her parents owned a farm of almost ten hectares which they took care of, and Jarmila Rousová helped them from an early age. During the war, her parents hid two resistance fighters from the Gestapo - both survived the war. Following February 1948, the family was struck by collectivisation, but fortunately, unlike farmers with more land, they did not have to move out of the village. She worked on the family farm until the 1970s, then trained as a shop assistant and worked at the local Jednota shop for twenty years. At the time of the interview (2019), the witness was still living in her family home in Rousměrov.
