Mum let me go as if nothing was going on
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Hedvika Šišková, née Pešáková, was born on 1 September 1932 in Prusinovice in the Holešov region, where her parents Robert and Hedvika also came from. Her father trained as a merchant in Holešov and fought in the World War I. He and his wife then ran a shop in Prusinovice. During the period following the assassination of Heydrich, several members of her mother’s family were imprisoned. During the period of liquidation of trades, the Pešák family lost their business - her mother ran a milk collection centre for a while, and her father became a clerk of the State Bank of Czechoslovakia in Holešov and in Gottwaldov (Zlín). In 1948, the witness attended the XIth Sokol Meeting in Prague. Because of her father being a tradesman, Hedvika was not allowed to study, so she started to work after completing the town (upper primary) school and one-year apprenticeship course (JUK). She worked in the hosiery factories in what was then Gottwaldov, later as a clerk and finally in the health care - at the age of thirty-six she completed her evening studies at the medical school. She worked, among other things, as head nurse at the dentistry department of the Health Centre in Holešov and at the Psychiatric Hospital in Kroměříž. She and her husband got married in 1952 and raised three children. In 2022 she was living in Holešov.
