The Gestapo took our parents away in the afternoon and in the evening my sister was told they had been executed
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Svatava Sojková, née Kodádková, was born in Vodňany on 19 May 1928. Her father Josef Kodádek was a teacher and the headmaster of the boys’ school in Vodňany and was also involved in the municipal politics. Her mother Antonie was a housewife. The Gestapo in Tábor arrested the Kodádeks on 29 June 1942 and executed them the same day on the grounds of their alleged approval of the assassination of the Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. Svatava was left alone with her elder sister. She lived with her relatives. She studied at the Teachers’ Institute in Prague between 1944 and 1946 and became a preschool teacher. She worked at preschools in Prague and retired in 1984. Svatava Sojková died on March 31, 2021.
