Bohuslava Škrabálková

* 1928

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15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR
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    School, that's important

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    "Generation after generation, as they always say. As it is, well, as it comes out, that's how you have to take it, every family. Some families already have the foundation of being rich, so you have to look in a different way. Some family is not rich, so they start to get defensive and they want to have more children, so that they have some training that maybe is different, special. For example, Věra was so exceptional, until now."

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    I was such a savage

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    "Girlfriends, to the cinema. We had to, to tell you the truth, so why do I say such a savage. We couldn't go one by one, two by two. Always in groups. Even when we went to the forest to pick some berries - mushrooms, strawberries - some berries, there was always a group of us... Even from Vsetin, when we missed the bus or something. There was a guard in the monastery and we kept calm when we went according to the guard who was standing in the doorway."

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    The Last War

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    "You can perceive it, only it didn't concern us. The war is big, it is not everywhere. Where there were those tyrannies, you always read about it, you learned from the news. That was sadness. Sadness. That's why they say that the last war, it wasn't a war, it was suffering."

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    V Otrokovicích, 06.11.2024

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I’m happy where I am

Bohuslava Škrabálková was born as Bohuslava Uličníková into an evangelical family in Liptál near Vsetín in Wallachia on 14 February 1928.Her mother Františka was one of six children, there were few doctors at that time and the children often did not live to adulthood. Mum was hardworking, as was dad Jan, who trained in Ostrava and worked as a miner in a stone quarry. Bohuslava trained as a seamstress in Vsetín, but had to change jobs after an eye injury. She returned to farming and later worked in Baťa’s enterprises in Zlín and Otrokovice. Her husband Cyril was from Sušice near Uherské Hradiště, where the couple moved after their wedding. Four children were born to them, all of them received an education and did well in life. At the time of filming in 2024, Bohuslava Škrabálková lived in the Senior Otrokovice retirement home.

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