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Růžena Sedláčková was born on 12 March 1926 in Vestec in the Central Povltava region. Her parents had a farm. She attended the municipal school in Hřiměždice and the town school in Kamýk nad Vltavou. She completed the fourth year of the burgher school in Příbram during the war. Due to the Germans closing the universities, she did not continue her studies and worked in agriculture until 1964. She remembers the liberation of the area by the Red Army. They lost their family farm during collectivisation and their house ended up under the waters of the Slapy dam in the 1950s. In 1964, Růžena and her husband moved to Prague to Kobylis, where she worked at the school as a kitchen helper and laundress. She experienced the occupation of Prague by the Warsaw Pact troops. After the Revolution, only a fraction of the nationalized property was returned to her. At the time of the interview (2019) she was living in a home for the elderly in Prague.
