Some soldiers guarded the prisoners at Bytíz, others sabotaged the resistance of the Czechoslovaks
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Bohuslav Šír was born on 26th February 1944 in Raduň near Opava. His parents met in Dresden, where they were both forced to work. After the war, the family moved to the village of Hradsko nad Jizerou in the Semily region. After the eighth grade in Dolní Dušnice, he entered the general secondary school, which he successfully completed in 1961. Because Bohuslav Šír loved sports since childhood, he wanted to get into the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport of Charles University in Prague, which he actually succeeded in his second attempt. He finished his studies in 1968. In the spring of that year, he started his compulsory military service in Příbram, where he became the commander of a platoon of athletes. From the beginning of the 1970s he began to work as a methodologist for the development of the quality of the physical education process and trained new coaches. He twice refused to join the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, so career advancement was impossible in his case, so in 1981 he decided to work as a teacher at the Secondary Vocational School of Agriculture in Vysoké nad Jizerou, where he stayed until 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s he worked as a teacher at the Integrated Secondary School in Jablonec nad Jizerou and the Textile Secondary School. He retired in 2004. In 2019 he received the Dr. Václav Jíra Award for his lifetime of honest efforts in the football movement. In retirement, he also devoted himself to charting the history of Hradsko as a chronicler and archivist. In 2023 Bohuslav Šír was living in Hradsko nad Jizerou.
