We lost our estate but all lived to see the end of the war
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Věra Samohýlová was born on the 30th of April, 1938 in Prague. Her mother was Czech and her father came from Trenčín, Slovakia. He used to sell timber. Before the war the family lived in a villa in Prague. After the war broke out in 1939, they managed a risky escape to Slovakia. For some time, the family lived peacefuly in Trenčín where Věra even started to go to kindergarten. But as time went on they needed to hide more and more. At first, her father hid in a hospital and her mother and Věra, at their friends‘ place. Then they had to move to Kopanice nad Trenčínem to Matějka’s family. Later they were provided a hideout by Stach’s family. Even there - the peril was increasing. They moved to a newly-built blockhouse where they lived for the rest of the war. Later, Věra lived with her mother in Trenčín while her father was restoring their Prague villa which had been occupied by the Germans during the war and shortly after that, by Russians. After the revolution of February 1948, their house was once again confiscated. Later, Věra got married and had children. She lives in Prague.
