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Jaroslav Skřipka was born on May 21, 1936 in Horní Lideč in Wallachia. His parents Anna and Jan maintained a large farm, and made a living by farming land and animals. Jaroslav’s brother Ladislav joined the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II. He was arrested and threatened with execution. However, he escaped due to the fact that his father killed a pig illegally and he managed to bribe the judge who was examining the case in Zlín with meat and liquor. After Victorious February 1948, the family got under the pressure of threats and threats in connection with forced collectivization. Jaroslav’s brother Ladislav decided to emigrate to Germany. Because of this, Jaroslav was brought for an interrogation at the State Security in Valašské Klobouce. In 1950, his father was visited by Rudolf Lenhard from the anti-communist resistance group Světlana and asked for accommodation for one of his comrades-in-arms. Jan Skřipka agreed, and when there was a mass arrest, he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison for this. All family property fell to the state. Anna Skřipková died three years later as a result of stress and overworking. Jaroslav learned about his father’s death during his military service in 1957. The authorities did not want to release father’s ashes with an urn; President Antonín Zápotocký himself rejected Jan Skřipka’s request to release the remains. Jaroslav Skřipka did not return to agriculture after the war. He worked in Ostrava for two years as a miner and then settled permanently in his native Horní Lideč. Brother Ladislav Skřipka emigrated in the early 1950s and the witness could not meet him until the late 1960s. He and his wife Jiřina raised three children, Jaroslav, Jana and Tomáš.
