I preferred the little children
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Šárka Růžková, née Golombková, was born on April 18, 1926 in Ostrava-Mariánské Hory. Her father Emil Golombek worked as a miner at the Ignát Mine. Elizabeth’s mother was a housewife. They had a five-year-old son, Jaroslav. Šárka attended a primary and middle school in Ostrava. After graduating, she did not get to train to become seamstress and spent two years at the Institute of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross, where she learned to sew, cook and the like. Then she took a six-month course in caring for children at the infant institute in Zábřeh. She was sent to a baby institution in Křenovice, where she remained until the end of the war. She met her future husband here. During the war, she secretly carried food to her brother in prison, who was arrested for participating in the sabotage at the Vítkovice Ironworks. She witnessed the bombing of Ostrava. After the war, she joined the children’s ward of the hospital in Vítkovice. In 1949 she married Jaroslav Růžek and a year later their daughter Jaroslava was born. In the 1960s, the couple moved to Poruba and the witness went to the local nursery. Two years prior to her retirement, she began working in a local scrap metal store for economic reasons as a cutter and mallet. Today, in 2019, she lives with her daughter in Ostrava-Poruba and her greatest joy is her six-month-old great-granddaughter Valentine. She dedicated her whole life to children and preferred the smallest ones.
